diff --git a/packages/snapshot/src/port/state.ts b/packages/snapshot/src/port/state.ts
index c1ad1bd4a..e691822ba 100644
--- a/packages/snapshot/src/port/state.ts
+++ b/packages/snapshot/src/port/state.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import {
   getSnapshotData,
   keyToTestName,
   normalizeNewlines,
-  prepareExpected,
   removeExtraLineBreaks,
   saveSnapshotFile,
   serialize,
@@ -310,8 +309,8 @@ export default class SnapshotState {
       : rawSnapshot
         ? rawSnapshot.content
         : this._snapshotData[key]
-    const expectedTrimmed = rawSnapshot ? expected : prepareExpected(expected)
-    const pass = expectedTrimmed === (rawSnapshot ? receivedSerialized : prepareExpected(receivedSerialized))
+    const expectedTrimmed = rawSnapshot ? expected : expected?.trim()
+    const pass = expectedTrimmed === (rawSnapshot ? receivedSerialized : receivedSerialized.trim())
     const hasSnapshot = expected !== undefined
     const snapshotIsPersisted
       = isInline
diff --git a/packages/snapshot/src/port/utils.ts b/packages/snapshot/src/port/utils.ts
index 5d4696b8d..35fe65b4e 100644
--- a/packages/snapshot/src/port/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/snapshot/src/port/utils.ts
@@ -175,36 +175,6 @@ export async function saveSnapshotFileRaw(
   await environment.saveSnapshotFile(snapshotPath, content)
 }
 
-export function prepareExpected(expected?: string): string | undefined {
-  function findStartIndent() {
-    // Attempts to find indentation for objects.
-    // Matches the ending tag of the object.
-    const matchObject = /^( +)\}\s+$/m.exec(expected || '')
-    const objectIndent = matchObject?.[1]?.length
-
-    if (objectIndent) {
-      return objectIndent
-    }
-
-    // Attempts to find indentation for texts.
-    // Matches the quote of first line.
-    const matchText = /^\n( +)"/.exec(expected || '')
-    return matchText?.[1]?.length || 0
-  }
-
-  const startIndent = findStartIndent()
-
-  let expectedTrimmed = expected?.trim()
-
-  if (startIndent) {
-    expectedTrimmed = expectedTrimmed
-      ?.replace(new RegExp(`^${' '.repeat(startIndent)}`, 'gm'), '')
-      .replace(/ +\}$/, '}')
-  }
-
-  return expectedTrimmed
-}
-
 function deepMergeArray(target: any[] = [], source: any[] = []) {
   const mergedOutput = Array.from(target)
 
diff --git a/test/snapshots/test/fixtures/indent/__snapshots__/basic.test.ts.snap b/test/snapshots/test/fixtures/indent/__snapshots__/basic.test.ts.snap
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..98d273d5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/snapshots/test/fixtures/indent/__snapshots__/basic.test.ts.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// Vitest Snapshot v1, https://vitest.dev/guide/snapshot.html
+
+exports[`toMatchSnapshot string 1`] = `
+"
+1111
+    xxxx {
+    }
+
+"
+`;
diff --git a/test/snapshots/test/fixtures/indent/basic.test.ts b/test/snapshots/test/fixtures/indent/basic.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dbc0a6049
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/snapshots/test/fixtures/indent/basic.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { test, expect } from "vitest"
+
+// pnpm -C test/snapshots test:fixtures --root test/fixtures/indent
+
+test('toMatchSnapshot string', () => {
+  expect(`
+1111
+    xxxx {
+    }
+
+`).toMatchSnapshot()
+})
+
+test('toMatchInlineSnapshot string', () => {
+  expect(`
+2222
+    yyyy {
+    }
+
+`).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+  "
+  2222
+      yyyy {
+      }
+
+  "
+`)
+})
diff --git a/test/snapshots/test/indent.test.ts b/test/snapshots/test/indent.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32c0c3664
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/snapshots/test/indent.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { expect, test } from 'vitest'
+import { editFile, runVitest } from '../../test-utils'
+
+test('white space sensitive', async () => {
+  const root = join(import.meta.dirname, 'fixtures/indent')
+
+  // ensure correct snapshot
+  let vitest = await runVitest({ root, update: true })
+  expect(vitest.exitCode).toBe(0)
+
+  // check diff of wrong snapshot
+  editFile(join(root, 'basic.test.ts'), s => s.replace('1111', 'aaaa').replace('2222', 'bbbb'))
+  vitest = await runVitest({ root })
+  expect(vitest.stderr).toContain(`
+- 1111
++ aaaa
+      xxxx {
+      }
+`)
+  expect(vitest.stderr).toContain(`
+- 2222
++ bbbb
+      yyyy {
+      }
+`)
+  expect(vitest.exitCode).toBe(1)
+})