diff --git a/package/ci/circleci.yml b/package/ci/circleci.yml
index 3dcb6a6b7..bd5bd70b1 100644
--- a/package/ci/circleci.yml
+++ b/package/ci/circleci.yml
@@ -852,9 +852,9 @@ jobs:
       # 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
+      # default. The default M4 medium resource class has 6 CPUs and Ninja uses
+      # -j8, so do the same for xcodebuild.
+      XCODE_JOBS: 8
     steps:
     - install-base-macos:
         extra: xcbeautify