diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ce22af7fa7a..51be8440d3d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 - Fix bad log message when key-value pairs are dropped because of key duplication in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log`. (#7662)
 - Fix `DroppedAttributes` on `Record` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log` to not count the non-attribute key-value pairs dropped because of key duplication. (#7662)
 - Fix `SetAttributes` on `Record` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log` to not log that attributes are dropped when they are actually not dropped. (#7662)
+- `WithHostID` detector in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource` to use full path for `ioreg` command on Darwin (macOS). (#7818)
 - Fix missing `request.GetBody` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp` to correctly handle HTTP2 GOAWAY frame. (#7794)
 
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diff --git a/sdk/resource/host_id.go b/sdk/resource/host_id.go
index 25778c99a0f..f8addf04032 100644
--- a/sdk/resource/host_id.go
+++ b/sdk/resource/host_id.go
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ type hostIDReaderDarwin struct {
 	execCommand commandExecutor
 }
 
-// read executes `ioreg -rd1 -c "IOPlatformExpertDevice"` and parses host id
+// read executes `/usr/sbin/ioreg -rd1 -c "IOPlatformExpertDevice"` and parses host id
 // from the IOPlatformUUID line. If the command fails or the uuid cannot be
 // parsed an error will be returned.
 func (r *hostIDReaderDarwin) read() (string, error) {
-	result, err := r.execCommand("ioreg", "-rd1", "-c", "IOPlatformExpertDevice")
+	result, err := r.execCommand("/usr/sbin/ioreg", "-rd1", "-c", "IOPlatformExpertDevice")
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}