diff --git a/src/transformers/convert_slow_tokenizer.py b/src/transformers/convert_slow_tokenizer.py
index fe602c28f3a6b8..94fe0b72cd82e0 100644
--- a/src/transformers/convert_slow_tokenizer.py
+++ b/src/transformers/convert_slow_tokenizer.py
@@ -1099,6 +1099,8 @@ def post_processor(self):
 
 
 class SiglipConverter(SpmConverter):
+    handle_byte_fallback = True
+
     def normalizer(self, proto):
         precompiled_charsmap = proto.normalizer_spec.precompiled_charsmap
 
@@ -1106,7 +1108,8 @@ def normalizer(self, proto):
 
         if self.original_tokenizer.do_lower_case:
             list_normalizers.append(normalizers.Lowercase())
-            list_normalizers.append(normalizers.Replace(Regex(r"[" + re.escape(string.punctuation) + "]"), ""))
+            punctuation_to_remove = string.punctuation.replace('>', '').replace('<', '').replace('/', '')
+            list_normalizers.append(normalizers.Replace(Regex(r"[" + re.escape(punctuation_to_remove) + "]"), ""))
             list_normalizers.extend(
                 [
                     normalizers.Replace(Regex(r"\s+"), " "),
diff --git a/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip.py b/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip.py
index 6203c6887054ca..6149c29a38da62 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip.py
@@ -267,7 +267,8 @@ def __setstate__(self, d):
         self.sp_model.Load(self.vocab_file)
 
     def remove_punctuation(self, text: str) -> str:
-        return text.translate(str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
+        punctuation_to_remove = string.punctuation.replace('>', '').replace('<', '').replace('/', '')
+        return text.translate(str.maketrans("", "", punctuation_to_remove))
 
     # source: https://github.com/google-research/big_vision/blob/3b8e5ab6ad4f96e32b32826f9e1b8fd277914f9c/big_vision/evaluators/proj/image_text/prompt_engineering.py#L94
     def canonicalize_text(self, text, *, keep_punctuation_exact_string=None):
@@ -287,7 +288,6 @@ def canonicalize_text(self, text, *, keep_punctuation_exact_string=None):
         else:
             text = self.remove_punctuation(text)
         text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
-        text = text.strip()
 
         return text
 
diff --git a/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip_fast.py b/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip_fast.py
index f4ca9c906dc14f..10c8806b38b3ac 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip_fast.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/siglip/tokenization_siglip_fast.py
@@ -181,6 +181,3 @@ def create_token_type_ids_from_sequences(
         if token_ids_1 is None:
             return len(token_ids_0 + eos) * [0]
         return len(token_ids_0 + eos + token_ids_1 + eos) * [0]
-
-    def tokenize(self, text: str, pair: Optional[str] = None, add_special_tokens: bool = False, **kwargs) -> List[str]:
-        return self.encode_plus(text=text, text_pair=pair, add_special_tokens=add_special_tokens, **kwargs).tokens()
diff --git a/tests/models/siglip/test_tokenization_siglip.py b/tests/models/siglip/test_tokenization_siglip.py
index 3ef1ada4b2c3ca..bbb7187b5ba166 100644
--- a/tests/models/siglip/test_tokenization_siglip.py
+++ b/tests/models/siglip/test_tokenization_siglip.py
@@ -222,9 +222,13 @@ def test_subword_regularization_tokenizer(self):
     def test_pickle_subword_regularization_tokenizer(self):
         pass
 
-    # @unittest.skip(reason="SiglipTokenizer has custom lowercase logic")
-    # def test_added_tokens_do_lower_case(self):
-    #     pass
+    @unittest.skip(reason="SiglipTokenizer has custom lowercase logic")
+    def test_added_tokens_do_lower_case(self):
+        pass
+
+    @unittest.skip(reason="Sigliptokenizers trips the punctuation for chat tokens")
+    def test_chat_template_return_assistant_tokens_mask(self):
+        pass
 
     # Copied from tests.models.t5.test_tokenization_t5.T5TokenizationTest.test_special_tokens_initialization with T5->Siglip
     def test_special_tokens_initialization(self):
@@ -383,8 +387,7 @@ def test_some_edge_cases(self):
         sp_tokens = tokenizer.sp_model.encode("</s>>", out_type=str)
         self.assertEqual(sp_tokens, ["</", "s", ">", ">"])
         tokens = tokenizer.tokenize("</s>>")
-        self.assertNotEqual(sp_tokens, tokens)
-        self.assertEqual(tokens, ["</s>"])
+        self.assertEqual(tokens, ["</s>", ">"])
 
         tokens = tokenizer.tokenize("")
         self.assertEqual(tokens, [])