diff --git a/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh b/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh
index a404d3e7..b4907ca0 100755
--- a/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh
+++ b/coin/provisioning/common/macos/disable_spotlight.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,29 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2017 The Qt Company Ltd.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only
 
-# Disable spotlight and and stop indexing
-sudo mdutil -a -i off
-sudo mdutil -a -i off /
-# Disable spotlight indexing /Volumes
-sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes
-# Erase spotlight index
-sudo mdutil -E /
+disableSpotlight() {
+    # Disable spotlight and and stop indexing
+    sudo mdutil -a -i off
+    sudo mdutil -a -i off /
+    # Disable spotlight indexing /Volumes
+    sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes
+    # Erase spotlight index
+    sudo mdutil -E /
+}
+
+# Disabling spotlight tends to be flaky, add some retry
+for i in $(seq 1 5)
+do
+    disableSpotlight
+    res=$?
+    if [[ $res -eq 0 ]]
+    then
+        echo "Spotlight disabled"
+        break
+    else
+        echo "Failed to disable spotlight, $i retry..."
+        sleep 2
+    fi
+done
+
+exit $res