I stumbled appon a warning message that was thrown by PHP when handling images with GD lib (e.g. imagecreatefrompng()). The message shown was:

libpng warning: Interlace handling should be turned on when using png_read_image

This message even exists, when deactivating ‘interlace’ with the help of:

imageinterlace($img, false);

The point is that this message is not caused by any wrong php code, it is caused by the processed images itself. The only solution is to deactivate interlace for the processed image(s). This is possible with ImageMagick. To deactivate interlace on all images of a folder, the following command can be used:

magick mogrify -interlace none *.png

I used ImageMagick on macos and installed it with with HomeBrew:

brew install imagemagick