diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3b5439f1..47d74ba2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ set(FLUID_DOCS_PATH "" CACHE PATH "Optional path to flucoma-docs (needed for doc
 if (APPLE)
   set(CMAKE_XCODE_GENERATE_SCHEME ON)
   set(CMAKE_XCODE_SCHEME_EXECUTABLE "/Applications/Max.app")
-  set(CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET "10.8" CACHE STRING "")
+  set(CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET "10.9" CACHE STRING "")
   #A consequence of targetting 10.8. Needs to be set globally from 10.15 onwards in order for the test program to compile successfully during configure 
   string(APPEND CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS " -stdlib=libc++")
 endif()