diff --git a/ios/RNSVGRenderable.m b/ios/RNSVGRenderable.m
index 5fddadda0..327f1052c 100644
--- a/ios/RNSVGRenderable.m
+++ b/ios/RNSVGRenderable.m
@@ -370,9 +370,11 @@ - (void)renderLayerTo:(CGContextRef)context rect:(CGRect)rect
     self.ctm = svgToClientTransform;
     self.clientRect = clientRect;
     self.screenCTM = current;
-
+    
     if (_vectorEffect == kRNSVGVectorEffectNonScalingStroke) {
-        path = CGPathCreateCopyByTransformingPath(path, &svgToClientTransform);
+        //Path was reassigned to new, copied object; need to call release somewhere
+        //but this function has multiple return points so I pick CFAutoRelease.
+        path = CFAutoRelease(CGPathCreateCopyByTransformingPath(path, &svgToClientTransform));
         CGContextConcatCTM(context, CGAffineTransformInvert(svgToClientTransform));
     }