diff --git a/AFNetworking/AFURLResponseSerialization.m b/AFNetworking/AFURLResponseSerialization.m
index b7be3d403c..bb378faa48 100755
--- a/AFNetworking/AFURLResponseSerialization.m
+++ b/AFNetworking/AFURLResponseSerialization.m
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ static id AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(id JSONObject, NSJSONReadingO
     if ([JSONObject isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
         NSMutableArray *mutableArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[(NSArray *)JSONObject count]];
         for (id value in (NSArray *)JSONObject) {
-            [mutableArray addObject:AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(value, readingOptions)];
+            if (![value isEqual:[NSNull null]]) {
+                [mutableArray addObject:AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(value, readingOptions)];
+            }
         }
 
         return (readingOptions & NSJSONReadingMutableContainers) ? mutableArray : [NSArray arrayWithArray:mutableArray];
diff --git a/Tests/Tests/AFJSONSerializationTests.m b/Tests/Tests/AFJSONSerializationTests.m
index d1b15e97a5..8be5bfeccd 100644
--- a/Tests/Tests/AFJSONSerializationTests.m
+++ b/Tests/Tests/AFJSONSerializationTests.m
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ - (void)testThatJSONResponseSerializerReturnsNilObjectAndNilErrorForSingleSpace
 - (void)testThatJSONRemovesKeysWithNullValues {
     self.responseSerializer.removesKeysWithNullValues = YES;
     NSHTTPURLResponse *response = [[NSHTTPURLResponse alloc] initWithURL:self.baseURL statusCode:200 HTTPVersion:@"1.1" headerFields:@{@"Content-Type":@"text/json"}];
-    NSData *data = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:@{@"key":@"value",@"nullkey":[NSNull null],@"array":@[@{@"subnullkey":[NSNull null]}]}
+    NSData *data = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:@{@"key":@"value",@"nullkey":[NSNull null],@"array":@[@{@"subnullkey":[NSNull null]}], @"arrayWithNulls": @[[NSNull null]]}
                                                    options:(NSJSONWritingOptions)0
                                                      error:nil];
 
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ - (void)testThatJSONRemovesKeysWithNullValues {
     XCTAssertNotNil(responseObject[@"key"]);
     XCTAssertNil(responseObject[@"nullkey"]);
     XCTAssertNil(responseObject[@"array"][0][@"subnullkey"]);
+    XCTAssertEqualObjects(responseObject[@"arrayWithNulls"], @[]);
 }
 
 - (void)testThatJSONResponseSerializerCanBeCopied {