diff --git a/app/models/user.js b/app/models/user.js
index a06a232a1..bdc3c13f4 100644
--- a/app/models/user.js
+++ b/app/models/user.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { nodeDirname } from '../support/node-dirname';
 import { EventService } from '../support/EventService';
 import { userCooldownStart, userDataDeletionStart, userPausedStart } from '../jobs/user-gone';
 import { allExternalProviders } from '../support/ExtAuth';
-import { spawnAsync } from '../support/spawn-async';
+import { runImageMagick } from '../support/image-magick';
 
 import { validate as validateUserPrefs } from './user-prefs';
 
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ export function addModel(dbAdapter) {
       const retinaSize = size * 2;
 
       const tmpPictureFile = join(tmpdir(), `resized-${uuid}-${size}`);
-      await spawnAsync('convert', [
+      await runImageMagick('convert', [
         path,
         '-auto-orient',
         '-resize',
diff --git a/app/setup/environment.js b/app/setup/environment.js
index 29e4d94f3..a3d9b9d5f 100644
--- a/app/setup/environment.js
+++ b/app/setup/environment.js
@@ -38,15 +38,22 @@ process.env.MONITOR_PREFIX = config.monitorPrefix;
 const checkIfMediaDirectoriesExist = async () => {
   let gotErrors = false;
 
-  const attConf = currentConfig().attachments;
-
-  const attachmentsDir = attConf.storage.rootDir + attConf.path;
-
-  try {
-    await access(attachmentsDir, constants.W_OK);
-  } catch {
-    gotErrors = true;
-    log(`Attachments dir does not exist: ${attachmentsDir}`);
+  const { attachments, profilePictures } = currentConfig();
+  const dirs = [
+    ['Attachments', attachments],
+    ['Profile pictures', profilePictures],
+  ].filter(([, mediaConfig]) => mediaConfig.storage.type === 'fs');
+
+  for (const [name, mediaConfig] of dirs) {
+    const dir = mediaConfig.storage.rootDir + mediaConfig.path;
+
+    try {
+      // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
+      await access(dir, constants.W_OK);
+    } catch {
+      gotErrors = true;
+      log(`${name} dir does not exist: ${dir}`);
+    }
   }
 
   if (gotErrors) {
diff --git a/app/support/image-magick.ts b/app/support/image-magick.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2bb1eab21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/support/image-magick.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import config from 'config';
+import createDebug from 'debug';
+
+import { spawnAsync, type SpawnAsyncArgs, type SpawnAsyncOptions } from './spawn-async';
+
+type ImageMagickCommand = 'convert' | 'identify';
+type Runner = { command: string | null; useMagickCli: boolean };
+
+const debug = createDebug('freefeed:image-magick');
+
+let detectedRunner: Promise<Runner> | null = null;
+
+export async function runImageMagick(
+  command: ImageMagickCommand,
+  args: SpawnAsyncArgs,
+  options: SpawnAsyncOptions & { binary: true },
+): Promise<{ stdout: Buffer; stderr: string }>;
+export async function runImageMagick(
+  command: ImageMagickCommand,
+  args: SpawnAsyncArgs,
+  options?: SpawnAsyncOptions,
+): Promise<{ stdout: string; stderr: string }>;
+export async function runImageMagick(
+  command: ImageMagickCommand,
+  args: SpawnAsyncArgs,
+  options: SpawnAsyncOptions = {},
+): Promise<{ stdout: string | Buffer; stderr: string }> {
+  const runner = await getRunner();
+  const runnerArgs = runner.useMagickCli ? magickArgs(command, args) : args;
+
+  debug('run %s %o', runner.command ?? command, runnerArgs.flat());
+  return await spawnAsync(runner.command ?? command, runnerArgs, options);
+}
+
+function getRunner(): Promise<Runner> {
+  detectedRunner ??= detectRunner();
+  return detectedRunner;
+}
+
+async function detectRunner(): Promise<Runner> {
+  const { command } = config.imageMagick;
+
+  if (command === 'legacy') {
+    debug('using legacy ImageMagick commands');
+    return { command: null, useMagickCli: false };
+  }
+
+  if (command !== 'auto') {
+    debug('using configured ImageMagick command: %s', command);
+    return { command, useMagickCli: true };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    await spawnAsync('magick', ['-version']);
+    debug('using ImageMagick 7 magick CLI');
+    return { command: 'magick', useMagickCli: true };
+  } catch (e) {
+    const message = e instanceof Error ? e.message : e;
+    debug('magick CLI is not available, using legacy commands: %s', message);
+    return { command: null, useMagickCli: false };
+  }
+}
+
+function magickArgs(command: ImageMagickCommand, args: SpawnAsyncArgs): SpawnAsyncArgs {
+  return command === 'identify' ? ['identify', ...args] : args;
+}
diff --git a/app/support/media-files/detect.ts b/app/support/media-files/detect.ts
index ae57ce95b..ed8cfff04 100644
--- a/app/support/media-files/detect.ts
+++ b/app/support/media-files/detect.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { open } from 'fs/promises';
 
+import { runImageMagick } from '../image-magick';
 import { spawnAsync } from '../spawn-async';
 
 import {
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ export async function detectMediaType(
   if (probablyImage) {
     // Identify using ImageMagick
     try {
-      const out = await spawnAsync('identify', [
+      const out = await runImageMagick('identify', [
         ['-format', '%m %W %H %[orientation] %n|'],
         `${localFilePath}[0,1]`, // Select only up to 2 first frames to reduce the memory usage
       ]);
diff --git a/app/support/media-files/process.ts b/app/support/media-files/process.ts
index 452be36a0..8f185e34a 100644
--- a/app/support/media-files/process.ts
+++ b/app/support/media-files/process.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { lookup as mimeLookup } from 'mime-types';
 import { exiftool } from 'exiftool-vendored';
 import createDebug from 'debug';
 
+import { runImageMagick } from '../image-magick';
 import { spawnAsync, type SpawnAsyncArgs } from '../spawn-async';
 import { currentConfig } from '../app-async-context';
 import { ContentTooLargeException } from '../exceptions';
@@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ async function processImage(
         return;
       }
 
-      await spawnAsync('convert', [
+      await runImageMagick('convert', [
         `${localFilePath}[0]`, // Adding [0] for the case of animated or multi-page images
         '-auto-orient',
         ['-resize', `${width}!x${height}!`],
diff --git a/config/custom-environment-variables.json b/config/custom-environment-variables.json
index 6ec85cabb..b10bdf5dc 100644
--- a/config/custom-environment-variables.json
+++ b/config/custom-environment-variables.json
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
     "host": "FRFS_REDIS_HOST",
     "port": { "__name": "FRFS_REDIS_PORT", "__format": "json" }
   },
+  "imageMagick": {
+    "command": "FRFS_IMAGEMAGICK_COMMAND"
+  },
   "postgres": {
     "connection": {
       "host": "FRFS_PG_HOST",
diff --git a/config/default.js b/config/default.js
index 08ed4b8c1..7f2187a18 100644
--- a/config/default.js
+++ b/config/default.js
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ config.profilePictures = {
   path: 'profilepics/', // must have trailing slash
 };
 
+config.imageMagick = {
+  // 'auto' prefers ImageMagick 7 'magick' CLI and falls back to ImageMagick 6
+  // legacy 'convert'/'identify' commands. Set to 'legacy' to force ImageMagick 6
+  // commands, or to 'magick' / a path to magick to force ImageMagick 7 CLI.
+  command: 'auto',
+};
+
 config.mailer = {
   useSMTPTransport: false,
   transport: defer((cfg) => (cfg.mailer.useSMTPTransport ? smtpTransport : stubTransport)),
diff --git a/test/functional/attachments.js b/test/functional/attachments.js
index e28357ff2..54f87948c 100644
--- a/test/functional/attachments.js
+++ b/test/functional/attachments.js
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ describe('Attachments', () => {
 
     // Test the v4 API response
     const resp1 = await performJSONRequest('GET', `/v4/attachments/${id}`);
-    expect(resp1.attachments, 'to equal', {
+    expect(resp1.attachments, 'to satisfy', {
       id,
       mediaType: 'audio',
       fileName: 'music.mp3',
@@ -259,7 +259,9 @@ describe('Attachments', () => {
         'dc:creator': 'Piermic',
         'dc:relation.isPartOf': 'Wikimedia',
       },
-      duration: 24.032653,
+      // Different FFmpeg versions may report slightly different durations, so
+      // we allow a small delta
+      duration: expect.it('to be close to', 24.032653, 0.1),
       createdAt: attObj.createdAt.toISOString(),
       updatedAt: attObj.updatedAt.toISOString(),
       createdBy: luna.user.id,
diff --git a/test/functional/bookmarklet.js b/test/functional/bookmarklet.js
index 8ed7dfc9c..f86d29445 100644
--- a/test/functional/bookmarklet.js
+++ b/test/functional/bookmarklet.js
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ describe('BookmarkletController', () => {
         } else if (url === '/big-body.jpg') {
           ctx.status = 200;
           ctx.response.type = 'image/jpeg';
-          ctx.body = getStreamOfLength(imageSizeLimit * 2);
+          ctx.body = getStreamOfLength(imageSizeLimit + 1024);
         } else if (url === '/im%C3%A5ge.png') {
           ctx.status = 200;
           ctx.response.type = 'image/png';
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ async function callBookmarklet(author, body) {
   return respBody;
 }
 
-function getStreamOfLength(length, chunk = Buffer.alloc(1024)) {
+function getStreamOfLength(length, chunk = Buffer.alloc(1024 * 1024)) {
   let bytesLeft = length;
   return new Readable({
     read() {
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ function getStreamOfLength(length, chunk = Buffer.alloc(1024)) {
         this.push(chunk);
         bytesLeft -= chunk.length;
       } else if (bytesLeft > 0) {
-        this.push(chunk.slice(0, bytesLeft));
+        this.push(chunk.subarray(0, bytesLeft));
         bytesLeft = 0;
       } else {
         this.push(null);
diff --git a/test/functional/groups.js b/test/functional/groups.js
index a0837a844..4adb6e648 100644
--- a/test/functional/groups.js
+++ b/test/functional/groups.js
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-unused-expressions */
 /* global $pg_database */
 import request from 'superagent';
-import { mkdirp } from 'mkdirp';
-import config from 'config';
 
 import cleanDB from '../dbCleaner';
 import { getSingleton } from '../../app/app';
@@ -349,7 +347,6 @@ describe('GroupsController', () => {
 
     beforeEach(async () => {
       context = await funcTestHelper.createUserAsync('Luna', 'password');
-      await mkdirp(config.profilePictures.storage.rootDir + config.profilePictures.path);
       await funcTestHelper.createGroupAsync(context, 'pepyatka-dev', 'Pepyatka Developers');
     });
 
diff --git a/test/functional/users.js b/test/functional/users.js
index 86b33d922..0ea57f1b1 100755
--- a/test/functional/users.js
+++ b/test/functional/users.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 /* global $pg_database, $should */
 import jwt from 'jsonwebtoken';
 import * as _ from 'lodash-es';
-import { mkdirp } from 'mkdirp';
 import request from 'superagent';
 import expect from 'unexpected';
 import config from 'config';
@@ -1388,10 +1387,7 @@ describe('UsersController', () => {
     let authToken;
 
     beforeEach(async () => {
-      const [user] = await Promise.all([
-        funcTestHelper.createUserAsync('Luna', 'password'),
-        mkdirp(config.profilePictures.storage.rootDir + config.profilePictures.path),
-      ]);
+      const user = await funcTestHelper.createUserAsync('Luna', 'password');
 
       ({ authToken } = user);
     });
diff --git a/test/integration/models/attachment-orientation.js b/test/integration/models/attachment-orientation.js
index 4cbf2558f..282aa6fde 100644
--- a/test/integration/models/attachment-orientation.js
+++ b/test/integration/models/attachment-orientation.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import expect from 'unexpected';
 
 import cleanDB from '../../dbCleaner';
 import { User, Attachment } from '../../../app/models';
-import { spawnAsync } from '../../../app/support/spawn-async';
+import { runImageMagick } from '../../../app/support/image-magick';
 
 const orientationNames = [
   'Undefined', // No orientation tag
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ describe('Orientation', () => {
 });
 
 async function getOrientation(filename) {
-  const out = await spawnAsync('identify', ['-format', '%[orientation]', filename]);
+  const out = await runImageMagick('identify', ['-format', '%[orientation]', filename]);
   return out.stdout;
 }
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ async function getOrientation(filename) {
  * orientation tag when it is not zero.
  */
 async function createTestImage(filename, orientation) {
-  await spawnAsync('convert', [
+  await runImageMagick('convert', [
     ['-size', '200x300'],
     'xc:#000000',
     ['-fill', '#ffffff'],
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ function patternForOrientation(orientation) {
 }
 
 async function expectOrientation(filePath, orientation) {
-  const { stdout: buffer } = await spawnAsync(
+  const { stdout: buffer } = await runImageMagick(
     'convert',
     [filePath, '-filter', 'Point', '-resize', '3x3', 'gray:-'],
     { binary: true },
diff --git a/test/integration/models/attachment.js b/test/integration/models/attachment.js
index fe785fcb5..78d387f84 100755
--- a/test/integration/models/attachment.js
+++ b/test/integration/models/attachment.js
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import { tmpdir } from 'os';
 import { v4 as createUuid } from 'uuid';
 import { before, beforeEach, describe, it } from 'mocha';
 import expect from 'unexpected';
-import { mkdirp } from 'mkdirp';
 import { lookup as mimeLookup } from 'mime-types';
 
 import cleanDB from '../../dbCleaner';
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ import { dbAdapter, Attachment } from '../../../app/models';
 import { currentConfig } from '../../../app/support/app-async-context';
 import { createUser } from '../helpers/users';
 import { createPost } from '../helpers/posts-and-comments';
-import { spawnAsync } from '../../../app/support/spawn-async';
+import { runImageMagick } from '../../../app/support/image-magick';
 import { withModifiedConfig } from '../../helpers/with-modified-config';
 import { initJobProcessing } from '../../../app/jobs';
 import { ATTACHMENT_PREPARE_VIDEO } from '../../../app/jobs/attachment-prepare-video';
@@ -35,11 +34,6 @@ describe('Attachments', () => {
     // Create user
     user = await createUser('luna');
     jobManager = await initJobProcessing();
-
-    const attConf = currentConfig().attachments;
-
-    // Create directories for attachments
-    await mkdirp(attConf.storage.rootDir + attConf.path);
   });
 
   beforeEach(() => fakeS3Storage.clear());
@@ -112,7 +106,7 @@ describe('Attachments', () => {
       currentConfig().attachments.storage.rootDir,
       att.getRelFilePath('p2', 'webp'),
     );
-    const out = await spawnAsync('identify', ['-format', '%w %h %[orientation]', originalFile]);
+    const out = await runImageMagick('identify', ['-format', '%w %h %[orientation]', originalFile]);
     expect(out.stdout, 'to equal', '300 900 Undefined');
   });
 
@@ -123,7 +117,7 @@ describe('Attachments', () => {
     // original colors
     {
       const originalFile = join(rootDir, att.getRelFilePath('', att.fileExtension));
-      const { stdout: buffer } = await spawnAsync(
+      const { stdout: buffer } = await runImageMagick(
         'convert',
         [originalFile, '-resize', '1x1!', '-colorspace', 'sRGB', '-depth', '8', 'rgb:-'],
         { binary: true },
@@ -138,7 +132,7 @@ describe('Attachments', () => {
     // preview colors
     {
       const previewFile = join(rootDir, att.getRelFilePath('p1', 'webp'));
-      const { stdout: buffer } = await spawnAsync(
+      const { stdout: buffer } = await runImageMagick(
         'convert',
         [previewFile, '-resize', '1x1!', '-colorspace', 'sRGB', '-depth', '8', 'rgb:-'],
         { binary: true },
diff --git a/test/integration/models/media-files.js b/test/integration/models/media-files.js
index 155078752..a0dab5161 100644
--- a/test/integration/models/media-files.js
+++ b/test/integration/models/media-files.js
@@ -16,7 +16,15 @@ describe('Media files', () => {
     const { file: fileName, info } = file;
     it(`should detect media info for ${fileName}`, async () => {
       const detected = await detectMediaType(join(samplesDir, fileName), fileName);
-      expect(info, 'to equal', detected);
+
+      if (info.duration) {
+        // Different FFmpeg versions may report slightly different durations, so
+        // we allow a small delta
+        const d = info.duration;
+        info.duration = expect.it('to be close to', d, 0.1);
+      }
+
+      expect(detected, 'to satisfy', info);
     });
   }
 });
diff --git a/test/testHelper.js b/test/testHelper.js
index 3f6bdfe43..acba10e8d 100644
--- a/test/testHelper.js
+++ b/test/testHelper.js
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import { should } from 'chai';
+import config from 'config';
+import { mkdirp } from 'mkdirp';
 
 import redisDb from '../app/setup/database';
 import * as postgresDb from '../app/setup/postgres';
@@ -12,3 +14,13 @@ global.$pg_database = global.$postgres.connect();
 
 // Show stack not only for errors, but also for warnings
 process.on('warning', (e) => console.warn(e.stack));
+
+export const mochaHooks = {
+  async beforeAll() {
+    const mediaDirs = [config.attachments, config.profilePictures]
+      .filter((mediaConfig) => mediaConfig.storage.type === 'fs')
+      .map((mediaConfig) => mkdirp(mediaConfig.storage.rootDir + mediaConfig.path));
+
+    await Promise.all(mediaDirs);
+  },
+};
diff --git a/types/config.d.ts b/types/config.d.ts
index f2c81c02b..4d6c74c45 100644
--- a/types/config.d.ts
+++ b/types/config.d.ts
@@ -224,6 +224,13 @@ declare module 'config' {
     hashtagStats: {
       refreshInterval: number;
     };
+
+    imageMagick: {
+      // 'auto' prefers ImageMagick 7 'magick' CLI and falls back to ImageMagick 6
+      // legacy 'convert'/'identify' commands. Set to 'legacy' to force ImageMagick 6
+      // commands, or to 'magick' / a path to magick to force ImageMagick 7 CLI.
+      command: 'auto' | 'legacy' | string;
+    };
   };
 
   export type TranslationLimits = {