diff --git a/include/wx/string.h b/include/wx/string.h
index d1c3b6d783..ee5a422954 100644
--- a/include/wx/string.h
+++ b/include/wx/string.h
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@
 // use in DLL build under pre-Vista Windows so we disable this code for now, if
 // anybody really needs to use UTF-8 build under Windows with this optimization
 // it would have to be re-tested and probably corrected
-#if wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 && !defined(__WXMSW__)
+// CS: under OSX release builds the string destructor/cache cleanup sometimes
+// crashes, disable until we find the true reason or a better workaround
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8 && !defined(__WXMSW__) && !defined(__WXOSX__)
     #define wxUSE_STRING_POS_CACHE 1
 #else
     #define wxUSE_STRING_POS_CACHE 0