diff --git a/custom-ports/whispercpp/portfile.cmake b/custom-ports/whispercpp/portfile.cmake
index f9849c92..2d3f6eb0 100644
--- a/custom-ports/whispercpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/custom-ports/whispercpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -2,15 +2,23 @@
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO ggerganov/whisper.cpp
-    REF e72e4158debb04126a0fabedf0452a5551780ea0
-    SHA512 67939e665542931a75a5ea05a873e5e0a73fc18b443720bcfeb340eb7e39818937c0078976320d9799f0643d8759a64adcb2da371e072f1053232802c1c107af
+    REF "v${VERSION}"
+    SHA512 17e0485fb93fdea1a89f584a64db35f05371e0b8710a539f0dffca30bd3a2fff44c72ea754556566ca3cc55415b1e8f2bb868665437f5c93b9ce666b4fe53fb3
     HEAD_REF master
 )
 
-vcpkg_configure_cmake(
-    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
-    PREFER_NINJA
-)
+if(APPLE)
+    vcpkg_cmake_configure(
+        SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+        OPTIONS
+            -DWHISPER_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
+            -DWHISPER_METAL_NDEBUG=ON
+    )
+else()
+    vcpkg_cmake_configure(
+        SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    )
+endif()
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
 vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
diff --git a/custom-ports/whispercpp/vcpkg.json b/custom-ports/whispercpp/vcpkg.json
index 9e6fc7a6..2964dbef 100644
--- a/custom-ports/whispercpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/custom-ports/whispercpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "whispercpp",
-  "version": "1.5.4",
+  "version": "1.6.2",
   "port-version": 1,
   "description": "A high-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp",
diff --git a/custom-steps/whispercpp/post-build.ps1 b/custom-steps/whispercpp/post-build.ps1
index 82fddc51..c89bd2a0 100644
--- a/custom-steps/whispercpp/post-build.ps1
+++ b/custom-steps/whispercpp/post-build.ps1
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ if(-not (Get-Module -Name $moduleName)) {
     Import-Module "$ModulesRoot/$moduleName" -Force -DisableNameChecking
 }
 
-if((Get-IsOnWindowsOS)) {
+if ((Get-IsOnMacOS)) {
+    Remove-DylibSymlinks -BuildArtifactsPath $BuildArtifactsPath
+}
+elseif((Get-IsOnWindowsOS)) {
     Update-VersionInfoForDlls -buildArtifactsPath $buildArtifactsPath -versionInfoJsonPath "$PSScriptRoot/version-info.json"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/custom-steps/whispercpp/version-info.json b/custom-steps/whispercpp/version-info.json
index cc307770..9faae8eb 100644
--- a/custom-steps/whispercpp/version-info.json
+++ b/custom-steps/whispercpp/version-info.json
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
   "files": [
     {
       "filename": "bin/whisper.dll",
-      "fileDescription": "Whisper speech recognition",
-      "fileVersion": "1.5.4",
+      "fileDescription": "High-performance inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model.",
+      "fileVersion": "1.6.2",
       "productName": "WhisperCpp",
-      "productVersion": "1.5.4",
-      "copyright": "Copyright (c) 2023 Georgi Gerganov"
+      "productVersion": "1.6.2",
+      "copyright": "Copyright (c) 2023-2024 The ggml authors"
     }
   ]
 }