diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/behaviorsettingswidget.cpp b/src/plugins/texteditor/behaviorsettingswidget.cpp
index 4a4eae51c2c..409f80dfa7f 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/behaviorsettingswidget.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/behaviorsettingswidget.cpp
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <texteditor/behaviorsettings.h>
 #include <texteditor/extraencodingsettings.h>
 #include <utils/algorithm.h>
+#include <utils/hostosinfo.h>
 
 #include <QList>
 #include <QString>
@@ -122,6 +123,8 @@ BehaviorSettingsWidget::BehaviorSettingsWidget(QWidget *parent)
             this, &BehaviorSettingsWidget::slotBehaviorSettingsChanged);
     connect(d->m_ui.smartSelectionChanging, &QAbstractButton::clicked,
             this, &BehaviorSettingsWidget::slotBehaviorSettingsChanged);
+
+    d->m_ui.mouseHiding->setVisible(!Utils::HostOsInfo::isMacHost());
 }
 
 BehaviorSettingsWidget::~BehaviorSettingsWidget()
diff --git a/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp b/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp
index 3aeb86bad2e..9a4b997ffc2 100644
--- a/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/texteditor/texteditor.cpp
@@ -3375,7 +3375,7 @@ void TextEditorWidget::setMouseHidingEnabled(bool b)
 
 bool TextEditorWidget::mouseHidingEnabled() const
 {
-    return d->m_behaviorSettings.m_mouseHiding;
+    return Utils::HostOsInfo::isMacHost() ? false : d->m_behaviorSettings.m_mouseHiding;
 }
 
 void TextEditorWidget::setScrollWheelZoomingEnabled(bool b)