diff --git a/stream/stream_file.c b/stream/stream_file.c
index d7c6799d7d..a365c0353f 100644
--- a/stream/stream_file.c
+++ b/stream/stream_file.c
@@ -168,7 +168,13 @@ char *mp_file_get_path(void *talloc_ctx, bstr url)
     }
 }
 
-#if HAVE_BSD_FSTATFS
+// Apple's required-reason API policy treats fstatfs() as a disk-space API.
+// mpv only uses it here as a best-effort remote-filesystem classifier, not to
+// retrieve disk capacity. Apple provides no approved reason for that use.
+// Fall through to the conservative portable implementation on Apple: files
+// remain playable, but mpv will not auto-classify mounted network filesystems
+// as streaming inputs. Explicit network URLs are unaffected.
+#if HAVE_BSD_FSTATFS && !defined(__APPLE__)
 static bool check_stream_network(int fd)
 {
     struct statfs fs;