diff --git a/kivy/tests/test_filechooser_unicode.py b/kivy/tests/test_filechooser_unicode.py
index 961086147..af132d341 100644
--- a/kivy/tests/test_filechooser_unicode.py
+++ b/kivy/tests/test_filechooser_unicode.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import unittest
 import logging
 from kivy.compat import PY2
+from kivy import platform
 
 if PY2:
     unicode_char = unichr
@@ -13,6 +14,14 @@ else:
 class FileChooserUnicodeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
+        self.skip_test = platform == 'macosx' or platform == 'ios'
+        # on mac, files ending in \uffff etc. simply are changed so don't
+        # do any tests because we cannot predict the real filenames that will
+        # be created. If it works on win and linux it also works on mac.
+        # note filechooser should still work, it's only the test that fail
+        # because we have to create file ourselves.
+        if self.skip_test:
+            return
         import os
         from os.path import join
         from zipfile import ZipFile
@@ -54,6 +63,8 @@ class FileChooserUnicodeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             open(f, 'rb').close()
 
     def test_filechooserlistview_unicode(self):
+        if self.skip_test:
+            return
         from kivy.uix.filechooser import FileChooserListView
         from kivy.clock import Clock
         from os.path import join
@@ -75,6 +86,8 @@ class FileChooserUnicodeTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertIn(f, files)
 
     def tearDown(self):
+        if self.skip_test:
+            return
         from os import remove, rmdir
         try:
             for f in self.ufiles: