As you are doing image upload and getting the issue for image rotate that I can feel is you are trying to upload an image from REST API.
Image rotate issue is coming in php in below cases: 

• Html crop image is not used in front end ( In case of web)
• Image orientation is not checked ( Applicable if image cropping is not used)

Here I will tell you about how to check image orientation, rotating images and save it.

public function imageOrientaionUpload(Request $request) {

    $publicPath = public_path('uploads_directory/');
    if($request->file('imgFile') == null) {
        echo 'No File Exist';
    }

    $file = $request->file('imgFile');
    // generating unique name for uploaded file
    $uniq = uniqid().time();
    $uploadFile = $uniq.'.'.$file->getClientOriginalExtension();
    // getting file path
    $filePath = $file->getPathName();

    // image rotation code in php starts here
    $exif = @exif_read_data($filePath);
    if(isset($exif['Orientation'])) {
        $orientation = $exif['Orientation'];

        if (isset($orientation) && $orientation != 1){
            switch ($orientation) {
                case 3:
                   // 180 degree image rotation
                    $deg = 180;
                    break;
                case 6:
                   // 270 degree image rotation
                    $deg = 270;
                    break;
                case 8:
                   // 90 degree image rotation
                    $deg = 90;
                    break;
                }

            if ($deg) {
                // If uploaded image is php
                if ($file->getClientOriginalExtension() == "png") {
                    $img_new = imagecreatefrompng($filePath);
                    $img_new = imagerotate($img_new, $deg, 0);

                    // Save rotated image
                    imagepng($img_new,$filePath);
                    } else {
                        $img_new = imagecreatefromjpeg($filePath);
                        $img_new = imagerotate($img_new, $deg, 0);

                        // Save rotated image
                        imagejpeg($img_new,$filePath,80);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

    // image rotation code in php ends here

    // image compression start
    $destinationPath = $publicPath.$uploadFile;

    // checking file extenstion in php
    $getFileExtn = strtolower($file->getClientOriginalExtension());
    $imageExtnArr = ['jpeg','jpg','png','bmp'];
    if(!in_array($getFileExtn, $imageExtnArr)){
        echo 'Image File format not supported';
    }
    // save roatate image
    $img->save($destinationPath,70);
    echo 'failed to upload image';
}