diff --git a/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py b/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py
index cdb2ee5cf16694be5499718b1d5275ddbc8a87dc..d8cccf98a58843a4d7c6901ae25afded0e023977 100644
--- a/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py
+++ b/pystencils/backends/simd_instruction_sets.py
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ def get_supported_instruction_sets():
         return _cache.copy()
     if 'PYSTENCILS_SIMD' in os.environ:
         return os.environ['PYSTENCILS_SIMD'].split(',')
-    if (platform.system() == 'Darwin' or platform.system() == 'Linux') and platform.machine() == 'arm64':
-        # not supported by cpuinfo
+    if platform.system() == 'Darwin' and platform.machine() == 'arm64':  # not supported by cpuinfo
         return ['neon']
     elif platform.system() == 'Linux' and platform.machine().startswith('riscv'):  # not supported by cpuinfo
         libc = CDLL('libc.so.6')
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ def get_supported_instruction_sets():
     required_sse_flags = {'sse', 'sse2', 'ssse3', 'sse4_1', 'sse4_2'}
     required_avx_flags = {'avx', 'avx2'}
     required_avx512_flags = {'avx512f'}
-    required_neon_flags = {'neon'}
+    required_neon_flags = {'asimd'}
     required_sve_flags = {'sve'}
     flags = set(get_cpu_info()['flags'])
     if flags.issuperset(required_sse_flags):
diff --git a/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py b/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py
index aebefec91d1b2f392b849f79960bf72dee666bf2..c71700d2f87929a842fedf891d92c9f5e9873ab3 100644
--- a/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py
+++ b/pystencils/cpu/cpujit.py
@@ -146,9 +146,7 @@ def read_config():
             ('flags', '-Ofast -DNDEBUG -fPIC -march=native -fopenmp -std=c++11'),
             ('restrict_qualifier', '__restrict__')
         ])
-        if platform.machine() == 'arm64':
-            default_compiler_config['flags'] = default_compiler_config['flags'].replace('-march=native', '')
-        elif platform.machine().startswith('ppc64'):
+        if platform.machine().startswith('ppc64') or platform.machine() == 'arm64':
             default_compiler_config['flags'] = default_compiler_config['flags'].replace('-march=native',
                                                                                         '-mcpu=native')
     elif platform.system().lower() == 'windows':