diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index faeba7026..22b6b0c93 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tls-api",
  "tls-api-native-tls",
+ "tls-api-openssl",
  "tokio",
  "tor-error",
  "tor-rtcompat",
@@ -3441,6 +3442,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tls-api-openssl"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "82155f245c99a3b652627f32abeacd4eae9e0fec996c1090df121e01379d28f3"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "openssl",
+ "openssl-sys",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tls-api",
+ "tls-api-test",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tls-api-test"
 version = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/crates/arti-hyper/Cargo.toml b/crates/arti-hyper/Cargo.toml
index f9f4977cb..b21df9a0a 100644
--- a/crates/arti-hyper/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/arti-hyper/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,8 +43,12 @@ tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.7", features = [
 tor-error = { path = "../tor-error", version = "0.4.0" }
 tor-rtcompat = { path = "../tor-rtcompat", version = "0.8.0", features = ["tokio"] }
 
+[target.'cfg(target_vendor="apple")'.dev-dependencies]
+tls-api-openssl = "0.9.0"
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3.0"
+
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 all-features = true
 rustdoc-args = ["--cfg", "docsrs"]
diff --git a/crates/arti-hyper/README.md b/crates/arti-hyper/README.md
index 14fcb96e6..47b64edb3 100644
--- a/crates/arti-hyper/README.md
+++ b/crates/arti-hyper/README.md
@@ -10,4 +10,9 @@ to connect to Tor and make a single HTTP\[S] request.
 
 [`hyper.rs`]: <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/crates/arti-hyper/examples/hyper.rs>
 
+## Warning 
+
+On `apple-darwin` targets only the `tls-api-openssl` tls implementation is working.
+If you get a issue related to tls failure, please refer to issue [#715](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/715).
+
 License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
diff --git a/crates/arti-hyper/examples/hyper.rs b/crates/arti-hyper/examples/hyper.rs
index ef2dd2288..ad9939ad8 100644
--- a/crates/arti-hyper/examples/hyper.rs
+++ b/crates/arti-hyper/examples/hyper.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,16 @@ use arti_hyper::*;
 use anyhow::Result;
 use arti_client::{TorClient, TorClientConfig};
 use hyper::Body;
-use tls_api::{TlsConnector, TlsConnectorBuilder};
+use tls_api::{TlsConnector as TlsConnectorTrait, TlsConnectorBuilder};
+
+// On apple-darwin targets there is an issue with the native and rustls
+// tls implementation so this makes it fall back to the openssl variant.
+//
+// https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/715
+#[cfg(not(target_vendor = "apple"))]
+use tls_api_native_tls::TlsConnector;
+#[cfg(target_vendor = "apple")]
+use tls_api_openssl::TlsConnector;
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
@@ -40,7 +49,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     // (This takes a while to gather the necessary consensus state, etc.)
     let tor_client = TorClient::create_bootstrapped(config).await?;
 
-    let tls_connector = tls_api_native_tls::TlsConnector::builder()?.build()?;
+    let tls_connector = TlsConnector::builder()?.build()?;
 
     // The `ArtiHttpConnector` lets us make HTTP requests via the Tor network.
     let tor_connector = ArtiHttpConnector::new(tor_client, tls_connector);