diff --git a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
index 6ac70ba69..031e9806d 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static bool eval_id(struct llama_context * ctx_llama, int id, int * n_past) {
 
 static bool eval_string(struct llama_context * ctx_llama, const char* str, int n_batch, int * n_past, bool add_bos){
     std::string              str2     = str;
-    std::vector<llama_token> embd_inp = ::llama_tokenize(ctx_llama, str2, add_bos);
+    std::vector<llama_token> embd_inp = ::llama_tokenize(ctx_llama, str2, add_bos, true);
     eval_tokens(ctx_llama, embd_inp, n_batch, n_past);
     return true;
 }
@@ -152,20 +152,8 @@ static void process_prompt(struct llava_context * ctx_llava, struct llava_image_
     size_t image_pos = prompt.find("<image>");
     if (image_pos != std::string::npos) {
         // new templating mode: Provide the full prompt including system message and use <image> as a placeholder for the image
-
         system_prompt = prompt.substr(0, image_pos);
         user_prompt = prompt.substr(image_pos + std::string("<image>").length());
-        // We replace \n with actual newlines in user_prompt, just in case -e was not used in templating string
-        size_t pos = 0;
-        while ((pos = user_prompt.find("\\n", pos)) != std::string::npos) {
-            user_prompt.replace(pos, 2, "\n");
-            pos += 1; // Advance past the replaced newline
-        }
-        while ((pos = system_prompt.find("\\n", pos)) != std::string::npos) {
-            system_prompt.replace(pos, 2, "\n");
-            pos += 1; // Advance past the replaced newline
-        }
-
         printf("system_prompt: %s\n", system_prompt.c_str());
         printf("user_prompt: %s\n", user_prompt.c_str());
     } else {