diff --git a/org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/debug/ui/ExpressionInformationControlCreator.java b/org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/debug/ui/ExpressionInformationControlCreator.java
index 3262c54..8365652 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/debug/ui/ExpressionInformationControlCreator.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/debug/ui/ExpressionInformationControlCreator.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2008, 2019 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2008, 2020 IBM Corporation and others.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui;
 
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform;
 import org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IVariable;
 import org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.SWTFactory;
 import org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.model.elements.ElementContentProvider;
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@
 import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Layout;
 import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
 import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree;
+import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TreeItem;
 import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPage;
 import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPartSite;
 
@@ -455,6 +457,12 @@
 			if (input instanceof IVariable) {
 				fVariable = (IVariable) input;
 		        fViewer.setInput(new TreeRoot());
+				// Workaround for empty hover popup dialog due to changed Mac API behaviour
+				if (Platform.OS_MACOSX.equals(Platform.getOS())) {
+					fTree.setItemCount(1);
+					TreeItem item = fTree.getItem(0);
+					item.getText();
+				}
 			}
 		}