diff --git a/tests/freqai/conftest.py b/tests/freqai/conftest.py
index ab4a62a9e..eeb0182b6 100644
--- a/tests/freqai/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/freqai/conftest.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import platform
 from copy import deepcopy
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Dict
@@ -14,6 +15,19 @@ from freqtrade.resolvers.freqaimodel_resolver import FreqaiModelResolver
 from tests.conftest import get_patched_exchange
 
 
+def is_mac() -> bool:
+    machine = platform.system()
+    return "Darwin" in machine
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="function", autouse=True)
+def patch_tensorboard_maconly(mocker):
+    if is_mac():
+        # MacOS CI is not friendly to tensorboard
+        mocker.patch('freqtrade.freqai.tensorboard.tensorboard.SummaryWriter')
+        mocker.patch('freqtrade.freqai.tensorboard.tensorboard.TensorBoardCallback.after_iteration')
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
 def freqai_conf(default_conf, tmpdir):
     freqaiconf = deepcopy(default_conf)
diff --git a/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py b/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py
index b49e801ed..b5314556f 100644
--- a/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py
+++ b/tests/freqai/test_freqai_interface.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from freqtrade.optimize.backtesting import Backtesting
 from freqtrade.persistence import Trade
 from freqtrade.plugins.pairlistmanager import PairListManager
 from tests.conftest import EXMS, create_mock_trades, get_patched_exchange, log_has_re
-from tests.freqai.conftest import (get_patched_freqai_strategy, make_rl_config,
+from tests.freqai.conftest import (get_patched_freqai_strategy, is_mac, make_rl_config,
                                    mock_pytorch_mlp_model_training_parameters)
 
 
@@ -28,11 +28,6 @@ def is_arm() -> bool:
     return "arm" in machine or "aarch64" in machine
 
 
-def is_mac() -> bool:
-    machine = platform.system()
-    return "Darwin" in machine
-
-
 def can_run_model(model: str) -> None:
     if (is_arm() or is_py11()) and "Catboost" in model:
         pytest.skip("CatBoost is not supported on ARM.")
@@ -59,10 +54,6 @@ def test_extract_data_and_train_model_Standard(mocker, freqai_conf, model, pca,
                                                dbscan, float32, can_short, shuffle, buffer):
 
     can_run_model(model)
-    if is_mac():
-        # MacOS CI is not friendly to tensorboard
-        mocker.patch('freqtrade.freqai.tensorboard.tensorboard.SummaryWriter')
-        mocker.patch('freqtrade.freqai.tensorboard.tensorboard.TensorBoardCallback.after_iteration')
 
     model_save_ext = 'joblib'
     freqai_conf.update({"freqaimodel": model})