[Linkd]

The amount of time I've spent dealing with this over the years is just incredible.. It's gotten to the point where during ingestion we auto-rotate everything just in case and strip out exif orientation metadata and never have to deal with it again.

[jjcm]

This is the correct approach in my opinion. Metadata should not be used to control rotation - there are just too many edge cases for where it can go wrong.

[drittich]

Yes, came to the same conclusion - it's a pain, but solves the problem permanently.