diff --git a/app/widget/viewer/viewerdisplay.cpp b/app/widget/viewer/viewerdisplay.cpp
index 0721ca4bb..d90dffeba 100644
--- a/app/widget/viewer/viewerdisplay.cpp
+++ b/app/widget/viewer/viewerdisplay.cpp
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ void ViewerDisplayWidget::mouseDoubleClickEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
           text_edit->setGeometry(transformed_geom.toRect());
 
           ViewerTextEditorToolBar *toolbar = new ViewerTextEditorToolBar(this);
-          toolbar->setWindowFlags(Qt::Dialog | Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
+          toolbar->setWindowFlags(Qt::Tool | Qt::FramelessWindowHint);
           toolbar->resize(toolbar->sizeHint());
 
           QPoint pos = mapToGlobal(QPoint(transformed_geom.x(), transformed_geom.y() - toolbar->height()));
@@ -376,6 +376,12 @@ void ViewerDisplayWidget::mouseDoubleClickEvent(QMouseEvent *event)
 
             // Start text cursor where the user clicked
             text_edit->setTextCursor(text_edit->cursorForPosition(text_edit_pos));
+
+            // HACK: On macOS, for some reason the QDockWidget receives focus before the
+            //       ViewerTextEditor, causing the editor to close prematurely. However this only
+            //       happens the first time the editor receives focus and not subsequent times, so
+            //       if we get it to only listen after the first one, this solves the problem.
+            text_edit->SetListenToFocusEvents(true);
           });
           break;
         }
diff --git a/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.cpp b/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.cpp
index 48d253d7d..29be978a6 100644
--- a/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.cpp
+++ b/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.cpp
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ namespace olive {
 ViewerTextEditor::ViewerTextEditor(double scale, QWidget *parent) :
   super(parent),
   transparent_clone_(nullptr),
-  block_update_toolbar_signal_(false)
+  block_update_toolbar_signal_(false),
+  listen_to_focus_events_(false)
 {
   // Ensure default text color is white
   QPalette p = palette();
@@ -175,6 +176,10 @@ void ViewerTextEditor::UpdateToolBar(ViewerTextEditorToolBar *toolbar, const QTe
 
 void ViewerTextEditor::FocusChanged(QWidget *old, QWidget *now)
 {
+  if (!listen_to_focus_events_) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   QWidget *test = now;
 
   if (!test) {
diff --git a/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.h b/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.h
index e01ced6fa..3cc4153e9 100644
--- a/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.h
+++ b/app/widget/viewer/viewertexteditor.h
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ public:
 
   void ConnectToolBar(ViewerTextEditorToolBar *toolbar);
 
+  void SetListenToFocusEvents(bool e) { listen_to_focus_events_ = e; }
+
 protected:
   virtual void keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event) override;
 
@@ -152,6 +154,8 @@ private:
 
   bool block_update_toolbar_signal_;
 
+  bool listen_to_focus_events_;
+
 private slots:
   void FocusChanged(QWidget *old, QWidget *now);