# Make aarch64-apple-darwin one of the default targets for docs.rs

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/make-aarch64-apple-darwin-one-of-the-default-targets-for-docs-rs/23583>\
**Category:** tools and infrastructure\
**Created:** [September 30, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/make-aarch64-apple-darwin-one-of-the-default-targets-for-docs-rs/23583 "2025-09-30T20:11:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![philomathic\_life](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/philomathic_life/32/13613_2.png) [@philomathic\_life](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/philomathic_life)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/make-aarch64-apple-darwin-one-of-the-default-targets-for-docs-rs/23583/1 "2025-09-30T20:11:17Z")

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`aarch64-apple-darwin` is a tier 1 platform while `x86_64-apple-darwin` is a tier 2 platform, but docs.rs still [builds docs](https://docs.rs/about/metadata) for `x86_64-apple-darwin` by default and not `aarch64-apple-darwin`. Should this be changed? I'm currently using the following section in `Cargo.toml` to build for this platform:

```toml
[package.metadata.docs.rs]
all-features = true
cargo-args = ["-Zbuild-std=std"]
default-target = "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
targets = [
  "aarch64-apple-darwin",
  "x86_64-unknown-openbsd"
]

```

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**Author:** ![philomathic\_life](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/philomathic_life/32/13613_2.png) [@philomathic\_life](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/philomathic_life)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/make-aarch64-apple-darwin-one-of-the-default-targets-for-docs-rs/23583/2 "2025-10-01T16:24:06Z")

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I should have taken the time to create a GitHub issue instead of posting here. I apologize for the noise. [This will be fixed](https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs/pull/2927) soon. Feel free to close this.