Video shows how key on MacBook breaks from piece of fabric

Repair website iFixit has put a video online showing how keys on a Butterfly keyboard of a MacBook or MacBook Pro can malfunction from a dust. The dust gets into the wedge at the top and bottom of the key, making it impossible to press.

Due to the dust, keys cannot ‘express’ themselves, so they remain pressed and characters continue to appear on the screen all the time and the key no longer functions properly, iFixit writes. The pieces of fabric are also not easy to remove by blowing hard on them, for example. Replacing individual keys is also difficult and, in the case of the spacebar, virtually impossible, claims iFixit.

Apple recently acknowledged that the MacBook keyboards, which it refers to as Butterfly, can be problematic. The manufacturer will repair the keyboards within four years of purchasing the laptop. The recognition came after many MacBook users experienced a lot of problems with failing keys in recent months. According to The Outline, repairs are a good start, but the problem lies in the keyboard design, and almost all MacBook keyboards with this design will sooner or later fail.

Apple put the Butterfly keyboard on the 12-inch MacBook in 2015 and MacBook Pros in 2016, among others, because the keys are 40 percent thinner than other keyboards, allowing the manufacturer to make the entire laptop thinner. over the head because of the keyboards Several users have sued over the design.