diff --git a/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm b/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm
index 7307595bd9b..baf2803d570 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm
+++ b/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm
@@ -714,13 +714,20 @@ QStringList QCoreTextFontDatabase::addApplicationFont(const QByteArray &fontData
 
     if (!fontData.isEmpty()) {
         QCFType<CFDataRef> fontDataReference = fontData.toRawCFData();
-        if (QCFType<CTFontDescriptorRef> descriptor = CTFontManagerCreateFontDescriptorFromData(fontDataReference)) {
-            // There's no way to get the data back out of a font descriptor created with
-            // CTFontManagerCreateFontDescriptorFromData, so we attach the data manually.
-            NSDictionary *attributes = @{ kQtFontDataAttribute : [NSValue valueWithPointer:new QByteArray(fontData)] };
-            descriptor = CTFontDescriptorCreateCopyWithAttributes(descriptor, (CFDictionaryRef)attributes);
+        if (QCFType<CFArrayRef> descriptors = CTFontManagerCreateFontDescriptorsFromData(fontDataReference)) {
             CFMutableArrayRef array = CFArrayCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorDefault, 0, &kCFTypeArrayCallBacks);
-            CFArrayAppendValue(array, descriptor);
+            const int count = CFArrayGetCount(descriptors);
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+                CTFontDescriptorRef descriptor = CTFontDescriptorRef(CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(descriptors, i));
+
+                // There's no way to get the data back out of a font descriptor created with
+                // CTFontManagerCreateFontDescriptorFromData, so we attach the data manually.
+                NSDictionary *attributes = @{ kQtFontDataAttribute : [NSValue valueWithPointer:new QByteArray(fontData)] };
+                descriptor = CTFontDescriptorCreateCopyWithAttributes(descriptor, (CFDictionaryRef)attributes);
+                CFArrayAppendValue(array, descriptor);
+            }
+
             fonts = array;
         }
     } else {
@@ -980,5 +987,10 @@ QList<int> QCoreTextFontDatabase::standardSizes() const
     return ret;
 }
 
+bool QCoreTextFontDatabase::supportsVariableApplicationFonts() const
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
 QT_END_NAMESPACE
 
diff --git a/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase_p.h b/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase_p.h
index 74c3f30b79c..eeea9ad6407 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase_p.h
+++ b/src/gui/text/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase_p.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ public:
     QFont defaultFont() const override;
     bool fontsAlwaysScalable() const override;
     QList<int> standardSizes() const override;
+    bool supportsVariableApplicationFonts() const override;
 
     // For iOS and macOS platform themes
     QFont *themeFont(QPlatformTheme::Font) const;
diff --git a/tests/auto/gui/text/qfontdatabase/tst_qfontdatabase.cpp b/tests/auto/gui/text/qfontdatabase/tst_qfontdatabase.cpp
index fb61037c95d..3995f64e07b 100644
--- a/tests/auto/gui/text/qfontdatabase/tst_qfontdatabase.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/gui/text/qfontdatabase/tst_qfontdatabase.cpp
@@ -534,9 +534,9 @@ void tst_QFontDatabase::variableFont()
 
     {
         QFont font(family);
-        font.setWeight(QFont::ExtraBold);
+        font.setWeight(QFont::Black);
         QCOMPARE(QFontInfo(font).styleName(), u"QtExtraBold"_s);
-        QCOMPARE(QFontInfo(font).weight(), QFont::ExtraBold);
+        QCOMPARE(QFontInfo(font).weight(), int(QFont::Black));
     }
 
     {
diff --git a/tests/auto/shared/resources/testfont_variable.ttf b/tests/auto/shared/resources/testfont_variable.ttf
index 70f76444842..b3d7be61808 100644
Binary files a/tests/auto/shared/resources/testfont_variable.ttf and b/tests/auto/shared/resources/testfont_variable.ttf differ