diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 467d6af32..3d1f178f5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -358,15 +358,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "hybrid-array",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "block2"
-version = "0.6.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cdeb9d870516001442e364c5220d3574d2da8dc765554b4a617230d33fa58ef5"
-dependencies = [
- "objc2",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "bstr"
 version = "1.12.3"
@@ -865,17 +856,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ctrlc"
-version = "3.5.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e0b1fab2ae45819af2d0731d60f2afe17227ebb1a1538a236da84c93e9a60162"
-dependencies = [
- "dispatch2",
- "nix 0.31.2",
- "windows-sys 0.61.2",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "darling"
 version = "0.20.11"
@@ -1015,18 +995,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "dispatch2"
-version = "0.3.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1e0e367e4e7da84520dedcac1901e4da967309406d1e51017ae1abfb97adbd38"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.11.0",
- "block2",
- "libc",
- "objc2",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "displaydoc"
 version = "0.2.5"
@@ -1327,7 +1295,6 @@ version = "2.5.0"
 dependencies = [
  "blake3",
  "clap",
- "ctrlc",
  "fbuild-build",
  "fbuild-config",
  "fbuild-core",
@@ -2813,18 +2780,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "nix"
-version = "0.31.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5d6d0705320c1e6ba1d912b5e37cf18071b6c2e9b7fa8215a1e8a7651966f5d3"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 2.11.0",
- "cfg-if",
- "cfg_aliases 0.2.1",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "no_std_io2"
 version = "0.8.1"
@@ -2915,21 +2870,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "autocfg",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "objc2"
-version = "0.6.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3a12a8ed07aefc768292f076dc3ac8c48f3781c8f2d5851dd3d98950e8c5a89f"
-dependencies = [
- "objc2-encode",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "objc2-encode"
-version = "4.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ef25abbcd74fb2609453eb695bd2f860d389e457f67dc17cafc8b8cbc89d0c33"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "object"
 version = "0.36.7"
diff --git a/crates/fbuild-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/fbuild-cli/Cargo.toml
index 3eaf49b0f..d045bd13a 100644
--- a/crates/fbuild-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/fbuild-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ tracing = { workspace = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 running-process = { workspace = true }
-ctrlc = "3.5.2"
 blake3 = { workspace = true }
 sha2 = { workspace = true }
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/dispatch.rs b/crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/dispatch.rs
index 00a557378..47c87a9be 100644
--- a/crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/dispatch.rs
+++ b/crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/dispatch.rs
@@ -48,12 +48,16 @@ pub async fn async_main() {
         tracing::warn!("{} is set but fbuild does not act on it", var);
     }
 
-    // Handle Ctrl+C with exit code 130 (standard POSIX SIGINT behavior, matches Python)
-    ctrlc::set_handler(move || {
-        output::warn("Interrupted");
-        std::process::exit(130);
-    })
-    .ok();
+    // Handle Ctrl+C with exit code 130 (standard POSIX SIGINT behavior, matches Python).
+    // Tokio's cross-platform signal driver avoids pulling the Objective-C runtime
+    // through ctrlc -> dispatch2 -> objc2 into the macOS CLI binary
+    // (FastLED/fbuild#1024).
+    tokio::spawn(async {
+        if tokio::signal::ctrl_c().await.is_ok() {
+            output::warn("Interrupted");
+            std::process::exit(130);
+        }
+    });
 
     // Notify when running in dev mode (matches Python behavior)
     if std::env::var("FBUILD_DEV_MODE").is_ok_and(|v| v == "1") {