diff --git a/extern/pybind11 b/extern/pybind11
index 80dc998efc..5b0a6fc201 160000
--- a/extern/pybind11
+++ b/extern/pybind11
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 80dc998efced8ceb2be59756668a7e90e8bef917
+Subproject commit 5b0a6fc2017fcc176545afe3e09c9f9885283242
diff --git a/include/utilities/python/InterpreterUtil.hpp b/include/utilities/python/InterpreterUtil.hpp
index b3f6cc764b..de4c0a6dd4 100644
--- a/include/utilities/python/InterpreterUtil.hpp
+++ b/include/utilities/python/InterpreterUtil.hpp
@@ -146,7 +146,11 @@ namespace utils {
                 py::object requestedDirPath = Path(directoryPath);
                 if (py::bool_(requestedDirPath.attr("is_dir")())) {
                     if (std::find(sys_path_vector.begin(), sys_path_vector.end(), directoryPath) == sys_path_vector.end()) {
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+                        sys_path.attr("insert")(1, py::str(directoryPath));
+#else
                         sys_path.attr("insert")(sys_path_vector.size(), py::str(directoryPath));
+#endif
                     }
                 }
                 else {