diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix
index 264fad638389..f987a5c47951 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix
@@ -87,13 +87,8 @@
   # An empty lists means this setting is omitted which matches upstreams default.
   enabledModules ? [ ],
 
-  AVFoundation,
-  Cocoa,
-  VideoDecodeAcceleration,
-  CoreMedia,
-  MediaToolbox,
-  Accelerate,
   bzip2,
+  apple-sdk_14,  # earlier SDKs cause linking issues on x86_64
   callPackage,
 }@inputs:
 
@@ -383,10 +378,6 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation {
     ++ optionals enableFfmpeg [
       ffmpeg
     ]
-    ++ optionals (enableFfmpeg && effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) [
-      bzip2
-      VideoDecodeAcceleration
-    ]
     ++ optionals (enableGStreamer && effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux) [
       elfutils
       gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base
@@ -426,12 +417,7 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation {
     ]
     ++ optionals effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
       bzip2
-      AVFoundation
-      Cocoa
-      VideoDecodeAcceleration
-      CoreMedia
-      MediaToolbox
-      Accelerate
+      apple-sdk_14
     ]
     ++ optionals enableDocs [
       doxygen
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 95ea8417ef57..f7322cf10e0a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10768,14 +10768,6 @@ with pkgs;
   };
 
   opencv4 = callPackage ../development/libraries/opencv/4.x.nix {
-    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks)
-      AVFoundation
-      Cocoa
-      VideoDecodeAcceleration
-      CoreMedia
-      MediaToolbox
-      Accelerate
-      ;
     pythonPackages = python3Packages;
     # TODO: LTO does not work.
     # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/343123