diff --git a/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py b/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py
index 6af548048c6784d65aa9a1537c953d56ce03e346..cdb2ee5cf16694be5499718b1d5275ddbc8a87dc 100644
--- a/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py
+++ b/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ def get_supported_instruction_sets():
         return _cache.copy()
     if 'PYSTENCILS_SIMD' in os.environ:
         return os.environ['PYSTENCILS_SIMD'].split(',')
-    if platform.system() == 'Darwin' and platform.machine() == 'arm64':  # not supported by cpuinfo
+    if (platform.system() == 'Darwin' or platform.system() == 'Linux') and platform.machine() == 'arm64':
+        # not supported by cpuinfo
         return ['neon']
     elif platform.system() == 'Linux' and platform.machine().startswith('riscv'):  # not supported by cpuinfo
         libc = CDLL('libc.so.6')
diff --git a/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py b/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py
index ca4f267944de80d45e1754ca6d32cf7741b7000a..19c09c47ad58619330b50846eef2237424a93534 100644
--- a/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py
+++ b/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ def read_config():
             ('flags', '-Ofast -DNDEBUG -fPIC -march=native -fopenmp -std=c++11'),
             ('restrict_qualifier', '__restrict__')
         ])
-        if platform.machine().startswith('ppc64'):
+        if platform.machine() == 'arm64':
+            default_compiler_config['flags'] = default_compiler_config['flags'].replace('-march=native', '')
+        elif platform.machine().startswith('ppc64'):
             default_compiler_config['flags'] = default_compiler_config['flags'].replace('-march=native',
                                                                                         '-mcpu=native')
     elif platform.system().lower() == 'windows':