diff --git a/tests/freqai/conftest.py b/tests/freqai/conftest.py
index eeb0182b6..13bbc4fca 100644
--- a/tests/freqai/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/freqai/conftest.py
@@ -20,14 +20,6 @@ def is_mac() -> bool:
     return "Darwin" in machine
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="function", autouse=True)
-def patch_tensorboard_maconly(mocker):
-    if is_mac():
-        # MacOS CI is not friendly to tensorboard
-        mocker.patch('freqtrade.freqai.tensorboard.tensorboard.SummaryWriter')
-        mocker.patch('freqtrade.freqai.tensorboard.tensorboard.TensorBoardCallback.after_iteration')
-
-
 @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
 def freqai_conf(default_conf, tmpdir):
     freqaiconf = deepcopy(default_conf)
diff --git a/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py b/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py
index 575e5c7e6..5eff3f3f6 100644
--- a/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py
+++ b/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ def can_run_model(model: str) -> None:
     if is_pytorch_model and is_mac() and not is_arm():
         pytest.skip("Reinforcement learning / PyTorch module not available on intel based Mac OS.")
 
+    if "XGBoost" in model and is_mac():
+        pytest.skip("Mac doesn't tb callbacks?")
+
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('model, pca, dbscan, float32, can_short, shuffle, buffer', [
     ('LightGBMRegressor', True, False, True, True, False, 0),