diff --git a/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner.cc b/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner.cc
index 087e13402f..89c1a91318 100644
--- a/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner.cc
+++ b/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner.cc
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
 #include "spinner.hpp"
 #include "qt_window.hpp"
 
-// TrackWidget
-
-TrackWidget::TrackWidget(QWidget *parent) {
+TrackWidget::TrackWidget(QWidget *parent) : QOpenGLWidget(parent) {
   setFixedSize(spinner_size);
   setAutoFillBackground(false);
 
@@ -56,7 +54,7 @@ Spinner::Spinner(QWidget *parent) {
   main_layout->setSpacing(0);
   main_layout->setMargin(200);
 
-  main_layout->addWidget(new TrackWidget(), 0, 0, Qt::AlignHCenter | Qt::AlignVCenter);
+  main_layout->addWidget(new TrackWidget(this), 0, 0, Qt::AlignHCenter | Qt::AlignVCenter);
 
   text = new QLabel();
   text->setVisible(false);
@@ -113,6 +111,16 @@ void Spinner::update(int n) {
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
+  QSurfaceFormat fmt;
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+  fmt.setVersion(3, 2);
+  fmt.setProfile(QSurfaceFormat::OpenGLContextProfile::CoreProfile);
+  fmt.setRenderableType(QSurfaceFormat::OpenGL);
+#else
+  fmt.setRenderableType(QSurfaceFormat::OpenGLES);
+#endif
+  QSurfaceFormat::setDefaultFormat(fmt);
+
   QApplication a(argc, argv);
   Spinner spinner;
   setMainWindow(&spinner);
diff --git a/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner_larch64 b/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner_larch64
index ffc98cf984..6912384399 100755
--- a/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner_larch64
+++ b/selfdrive/ui/qt/spinner_larch64
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:dcf0ea9e0aad69be5f31e349297454433792daabbbc228e42873f37ce3e3a742
-size 539856
+oid sha256:a62f29ddc8abe620c85140d9ba2fb4cb5c869b5aae92ff83b39960d1a82dbd03
+size 662096