diff --git a/recipe/build.sh b/recipe/build.sh
index 6db6b9e..52c1abe 100644
--- a/recipe/build.sh
+++ b/recipe/build.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ if [[ "$mpi" != "nompi" ]]; then
   export HDF5_MPI="ON"
 fi
 
+if [[ ${target_platform} == "osx-arm64" ]]; then
+  export CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS=arm64
+fi
+
 # tell setup.py to not 'pip install' exact package requirements
 export H5PY_SETUP_REQUIRES="0"
 
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 02c560e..977d679 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ package:
 source:
   url: https://github.com/h5py/h5py/archive/{{ version }}.tar.gz
   sha256: 71ee0e0a25d6acc5e99ff13c287cae006604f6054dd9b60c352d0216e5d6b6f4
-  patches:
-    - osx-arm64.diff    # [osx and arm64]
 
 build:
   skip: true  # [py<=36]
diff --git a/recipe/osx-arm64.diff b/recipe/osx-arm64.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 201d5c7..0000000
--- a/recipe/osx-arm64.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- setup_build.py      2020-12-31 10:58:00.000000000 -0800
-+++ setup_build.py      2020-12-31 10:58:17.000000000 -0800
-@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
-         s %= {
-             'mpi': bool(config.mpi),
-             'version': config.hdf5_version,
--            'complex256_support': hasattr(numpy, 'complex256'),
-+            'complex256_support': False,
-             'numpy_version': numpy.__version__,
-             'cython_version': cython_version,
-         }