Alternatively, you may just get a few of the keys replaced. You need to head into an Apple Store, or an Apple Authorised Service Provider, to get the keyboard upgraded to the latest fourth-generation model, which we’re assuming isn’t blighted by sticky space bars or repeating letters. That stretches back to the original 2015 MacBook models and covers everything since, though the program only extends for four years, so you’ll need to act fast if you’ve got one of them (though you may have sorted a fix already anyway). The good news is that Apple has now decided to replace every keyboard that’s faulty (originally, my third-gen butterfly keyboard model was excluded from the repair program). Sometimes it doesn’t register a tap at all, sometimes it registers two taps, and sometimes it goes really crazy and responds with a space, a period, and a space again.įor someone who writes for a living, this is hardly ideal - getting readable sentences together is difficult enough without having to go back and edit half of them again to remove typos introduced by Apple’s low-profile keyboard design. For the other 25 per cent of hits a myriad of things happen that shouldn’t. Not long after that, the space bar started acting up as well - now I only get what I expect (a space) around three-quarters of the time. A few months after buying the MacBook Pro, certain keys would start repeating themselves - the “o” and the “i” key are particularly susceptible to this, though reading through other online complaints it seems that any key can fall victim to the problem. You’ll find a long list of stories on the web, so here’s mine, briefly. If yours is also acting up, here’s what you can do. Since Apple introduced its butterfly keyboard design in 2015, the problems with it have been very well documented - and they’re problems that I’ve experienced as well, with a 2018 MacBook Pro (the one with the third revision of butterfly keyboard, if you’re keeping count).
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