diff --git a/ios/RNFetchBlobFS.m b/ios/RNFetchBlobFS.m
index 9d4e00b0d..5e102d184 100644
--- a/ios/RNFetchBlobFS.m
+++ b/ios/RNFetchBlobFS.m
@@ -568,11 +568,11 @@ - (NSString *)openWithPath:(NSString *)destPath encode:(nullable NSString *)enco
 
 // Write file chunk into an opened stream
 - (void)writeEncodeChunk:(NSString *) chunk {
-    NSMutableData * decodedData = [NSData alloc];
+    NSData * decodedData = nil;
     if([[self.encoding lowercaseString] isEqualToString:@"base64"]) {
-        decodedData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedData:chunk options:0];
-    }
-    if([[self.encoding lowercaseString] isEqualToString:@"utf8"]) {
+        decodedData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedString:chunk options: NSDataBase64DecodingIgnoreUnknownCharacters];
+    } 
+    else if([[self.encoding lowercaseString] isEqualToString:@"utf8"]) {
         decodedData = [chunk dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
     }
     else if([[self.encoding lowercaseString] isEqualToString:@"ascii"]) {
@@ -793,4 +793,4 @@ + (void) writeAssetToPath:(ALAssetRepresentation * )rep dest:(NSString *)dest
     return;
 }
 
-@end
+@end
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