diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
index e0199cb4f317..aa7db432c80b 100644
--- a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
+++ b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 19, 2017
+.Dd February 10, 2018
 .Dt GPART 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -654,6 +654,8 @@ Another symbolic names that can be used with
 .Cm gpart
 utility are:
 .Bl -tag -width ".Cm dragonfly-disklabel64"
+.It Cm apple-apfs
+An Apple macOS partition used for the Apple file system, APFS.
 .It Cm apple-core-storage
 An Apple Mac OS X partition used by logical volume manager known as
 Core Storage.
diff --git a/sys/geom/part/g_part.c b/sys/geom/part/g_part.c
index de79be297429..ae76e10c6578 100644
--- a/sys/geom/part/g_part.c
+++ b/sys/geom/part/g_part.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ struct g_part_alias_list {
 	const char *lexeme;
 	enum g_part_alias alias;
 } g_part_alias_list[G_PART_ALIAS_COUNT] = {
+	{ "apple-apfs", G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_APFS },
 	{ "apple-boot", G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_BOOT },
 	{ "apple-core-storage", G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_CORE_STORAGE },
 	{ "apple-hfs", G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_HFS },
diff --git a/sys/geom/part/g_part.h b/sys/geom/part/g_part.h
index 67d0168cbda4..43a796a429c1 100644
--- a/sys/geom/part/g_part.h
+++ b/sys/geom/part/g_part.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #define	G_PART_PROBE_PRI_HIGH	0
 
 enum g_part_alias {
+	G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_APFS,	/* An Apple APFS partition. */
 	G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_BOOT,	/* An Apple boot partition entry. */
 	G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_CORE_STORAGE,/* An Apple Core Storage partition. */
 	G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_HFS,		/* An HFS+ file system entry. */
diff --git a/sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c b/sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c
index b0a7682a28c0..c2f772406614 100644
--- a/sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c
+++ b/sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static struct g_part_scheme g_part_gpt_scheme = {
 };
 G_PART_SCHEME_DECLARE(g_part_gpt);
 
+static struct uuid gpt_uuid_apple_apfs = GPT_ENT_TYPE_APPLE_APFS;
 static struct uuid gpt_uuid_apple_boot = GPT_ENT_TYPE_APPLE_BOOT;
 static struct uuid gpt_uuid_apple_core_storage =
     GPT_ENT_TYPE_APPLE_CORE_STORAGE;
@@ -208,6 +209,7 @@ static struct g_part_uuid_alias {
 	int alias;
 	int mbrtype;
 } gpt_uuid_alias_match[] = {
+	{ &gpt_uuid_apple_apfs,		G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_APFS,	 0 },
 	{ &gpt_uuid_apple_boot,		G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_BOOT,	 0xab },
 	{ &gpt_uuid_apple_core_storage,	G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_CORE_STORAGE, 0 },
 	{ &gpt_uuid_apple_hfs,		G_PART_ALIAS_APPLE_HFS,		 0xaf },
diff --git a/sys/sys/disk/gpt.h b/sys/sys/disk/gpt.h
index a3df2927beec..ce38a1d1036a 100644
--- a/sys/sys/disk/gpt.h
+++ b/sys/sys/disk/gpt.h
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ CTASSERT(sizeof(struct gpt_ent) == 128);
     	{0x5265636f,0x7665,0x11AA,0xaa,0x11,{0x00,0x30,0x65,0x43,0xec,0xac}}
 #define	GPT_ENT_TYPE_APPLE_CORE_STORAGE	\
 	{0x53746f72,0x6167,0x11AA,0xaa,0x11,{0x00,0x30,0x65,0x43,0xec,0xac}}
+#define	GPT_ENT_TYPE_APPLE_APFS	\
+	{0x7c3457ef,0x0000,0x11aa,0xaa,0x11,{0x00,0x30,0x65,0x43,0xec,0xac}}
 
 #define	GPT_ENT_TYPE_NETBSD_FFS		\
 	{0x49f48d5a,0xb10e,0x11dc,0xb9,0x9b,{0x00,0x19,0xd1,0x87,0x96,0x48}}