diff --git a/app/controllers/api/avatars.php b/app/controllers/api/avatars.php
index 0617a84532..d0d77d5c3e 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/avatars.php
+++ b/app/controllers/api/avatars.php
@@ -475,7 +475,9 @@ App::get('/v1/avatars/favicon')
 
         if ('svg' === $outputExt) { // Skip crop, Imagick isn\'t supporting svg files
             $sanitizer = new SvgSanitizer();
-            $cleanSvg = $sanitizer->sanitize($data);
+            $cleanSvg = $sanitizer
+                ->minify()
+                ->sanitize($data);
             if ($cleanSvg === false) {
                 throw new \Exception('SVG sanitization failed');
             }