diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 377d11080..26f09edef 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ VERSION_EXT =
 
 IS_APPLE := $(shell $(CC) -dM -E - < /dev/null 2> /dev/null | grep __apple_build_version__ | wc -l | tr -d " ")
 ifeq ($(IS_APPLE),1)
-# on MacOS, compile in Universal format by default
-MACOS_UNIVERSAL ?= yes
+# on MacOS, do not build in Universal format by default
+MACOS_UNIVERSAL ?= no
 ifeq ($(MACOS_UNIVERSAL),yes)
 CFLAGS += $(foreach arch,$(LIBARCHS),-arch $(arch))
 LDFLAGS += $(foreach arch,$(LIBARCHS),-arch $(arch))
diff --git a/make.sh b/make.sh
index a2f7c6f64..21c55d739 100755
--- a/make.sh
+++ b/make.sh
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ case "$TARGET" in
   "ios_armv7s" ) build_iOS armv7s $*;;
   "ios_arm64" ) build_iOS arm64 $*;;
   "osx-kernel" ) CAPSTONE_USE_SYS_DYN_MEM=yes CAPSTONE_HAS_OSXKERNEL=yes CAPSTONE_ARCHS=x86 CAPSTONE_SHARED=no CAPSTONE_BUILD_CORE_ONLY=yes ${MAKE} $*;;
+  "mac-universal" ) MACOS_UNIVERSAL=yes ${MAKE} $*;;
   "mac-universal-no" ) MACOS_UNIVERSAL=no ${MAKE} $*;;
   * )
     echo "Usage: $0 ["`grep '^  "' $0 | cut -d '"' -f 2 | tr "\\n" "|"`"]"