Ready to option upwardly the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the scissor switch Magic Keyboard? If you're thinking of selling your current MacBook to upgrade to Apple'due south latest, follow forth for how to repair or supercede your current butterfly keyboard for free to get more coin when you lot sell your notebook.

Apple tree's butterfly keyboards in MacBooks that engagement back to 2015 accept seen serious problems with droppings beingness caught under keys. This causes keys to not work, or in some cases the estimator registering a double press when keys are merely pressed once.

All of Apple'south MacBooks with butterfly keyboards are eligible for the costless service program. The 2018 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air featured the third-generation butterfly keyboard that includes a new gasket, just that didn't fully solve the event for many users.

Finally, even afterward 2019 MacBook Pro models included a new material in the keyboards (a 4th iteration), they became eligible for the keyboard service program as soon as they debuted.

So if you lot're looking to sell your electric current MacBook, particularly on eBay, Swappa, Craigslist, or to a friend or family fellow member, you'll probable be able to sell information technology for more than with a fully performance, and peradventure brand-new keyboard (and you'll probably feel better handing it off knowing the keyboard isn't glitching besides 😄).

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Per Apple tree's keyboard service program, in some cases, they volition replace the unabridged keyboard, and others may repair certain keys.

How to replace your MacBook butterfly keyboard for costless and get more money when selling

  1. If you're not sure, check your MacBook or MacBook Pro model ( → Nigh this Mac)
  2. Bank check if your MacBook is part of the keyboard service program hither or below
  3. If information technology is, go far touch and Apple will begin the repair or replacement procedure
  • MacBook (Retina, 12-­inch, Early 2015)
  • MacBook (Retina, 12­-inch, Early on 2016)
  • MacBook (Retina, 12-­inch, 2017)
  • MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018)
  • MacBook Pro (thirteen­-inch, 2016, 2 Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2017, 2 Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (thirteen-­inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt three Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (15-­inch, 2016)
  • MacBook Pro (fifteen-­inch, 2017)
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (15-­inch, 2018)
  • MacBook Pro (thirteen-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (15-­inch, 2019)

Annotation: No other Mac notebook models are part of this program.

Before on in the keyboard repair program, Apple was sending out MacBooks with keyboard issues with a typical three- to five-day turnaround. Dorsum in Apr, Apple started offer in-store keyboard repair and replacement with next-day turnaround for many customers.

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