diff --git a/package/ci/circleci.yml b/package/ci/circleci.yml
index bed75dea3..f82254895 100644
--- a/package/ci/circleci.yml
+++ b/package/ci/circleci.yml
@@ -589,6 +589,10 @@ jobs:
     environment:
       # STUPID yml interprets unquoted ON as a boolean
       TARGET_GLES2: "OFF"
+      # Yep, xcodebuild is beyond stupid and just DOESN'T build in parallel by
+      # default. The default medium resource class has 4 CPUs and Ninja uses
+      # -j6, so do the same for xcodebuild.
+      XCODE_JOBS: 6
     steps:
     - install-base-macos:
         extra: xcbeautify
diff --git a/package/ci/ios-simulator-gles.sh b/package/ci/ios-simulator-gles.sh
index c12e411cf..0da3aed51 100755
--- a/package/ci/ios-simulator-gles.sh
+++ b/package/ci/ios-simulator-gles.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ cmake .. \
     -DCORRADE_TESTSUITE_TARGET_XCTEST=ON \
     -DCORRADE_WITH_INTERCONNECT=OFF \
     -G Xcode
-set -o pipefail && cmake --build . --config Release --target install | xcbeautify
+set -o pipefail && cmake --build . --config Release --target install -j$XCODE_JOBS | xcbeautify
 cd ../..
 
 # Crosscompile SDL. On 2022-14-02 curl says the certificate is expired, so
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ cd ../..
 curl --insecure -O https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.10.tar.gz
 tar -xzvf SDL2-2.0.10.tar.gz
 cd SDL2-2.0.10/Xcode-iOS/SDL
-set -o pipefail && xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator13.7 | xcbeautify
+set -o pipefail && xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator13.7 -jobs $XCODE_JOBS -parallelizeTargets | xcbeautify
 cp build/Release-iphonesimulator/libSDL2.a $HOME/deps/lib
 mkdir -p $HOME/deps/include/SDL2
 cp -R ../../include/* $HOME/deps/include/SDL2
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ cmake .. \
     -DMAGNUM_BUILD_TESTS=ON \
     -DMAGNUM_BUILD_GL_TESTS=ON \
     -G Xcode
-set -o pipefail && cmake --build . --config Release | xcbeautify
+set -o pipefail && cmake --build . --config Release -j$XCODE_JOBS | xcbeautify
 # TODO: find a better way to avoid
 # Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGLES.framework/OpenGLES
 # error
 DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS 12.4.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGLES.framework" DYLD_FALLBACK_FRAMEWORK_PATH="/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS 12.4.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/System/Library/Frameworks" CORRADE_TEST_COLOR=ON ctest -V -C Release -E "GLTest|GLBenchmark"
 
 # Test install, after running the tests as for them it shouldn't be needed
-set -o pipefail && cmake --build . --config Release --target install | xcbeautify
+set -o pipefail && cmake --build . --config Release --target install -j$XCODE_JOBS | xcbeautify