Magnetic suppression of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) offers a viable route for its control. While the NHSE has been realized in various classical-wave platforms, only pseudomagnetic fields (PMFs), which preserve time-reversal symmetry, can be engineered in such systems; however, their interplay with the NHSE remains underexplored. Here, we investigate this interplay in a non-Hermitian honeycomb lattice by considering two distinct mechanisms for generating PMFs: monotonically increasing strain and spatially modulated gain and loss. We show that in both scenarios, PMFs can efficiently suppress the NHSE by driving skin modes into the bulk, accompanied by a reduction of the skin topological area and a contraction of the complex-energy spectrum under periodic boundary conditions. This mechanism is insensitive to boundary details and holds for various edge terminations, including zigzag, bearded, armchair, and twig edges. Our results establish PMFs as a versatile and effective means to control the NHSE, and point toward feasible implementations in a broad range of artificial platforms, including photonic and acoustic metamaterials as well as topolectrical circuits.

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• Fermions
• Landau levels
• Skin effect
• Valleytronics
• Non-Hermitian systems