Going forward, Apple will not fix the butterfly keyboard on your 12-inch MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro.
Apple has Officially Ended its Butterfly Keyboard Repair Program for MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro
2015 was an important year for Apple, as it launched the 12-inch MacBook for the first time. With that, the brand-new keyboard with butterfly key switches was born too.
This keyboard was extremely important because it was thin, which allowed Apple to make a laptop as thin as the 12-inch MacBook possible in the first place.
Apple was so confident in the keyboard that it brought it over to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. But consumers and Apple realized how big of a disaster the keyboard was going to be.
A little piece of dust stuck under the key was enough to render it useless in some cases. Apple went ahead and published a tutorial on how to blow compressed air to fix it, but failure was imminent for some people.
Once the issues start to pile up, Apple launched a program in which you were able to get the keyboard fixed free of cost. Today, you can no longer do that as the program has officially ended.
That’s right, folks. If that butterfly keyboard of yours shows any sign of failure, Apple won’t fix it and you have to opt for a third-party repair.
I was affected by this issue as well. The ‘B’ key on my MacBook Pro failed completely. It started off as multiple key registers when pressed once and then it stopped working completely after a few weeks.
Rather than get the keyboard repaired, I sold the MacBook Pro instead. Thankfully, the M1 MacBook Pro saved the day for me, thanks to its use of scissor key switches, something which Apple has been using before the butterfly mechanism.
Apple’s move to go back to using scissor switches in the keyboard was the best thing ever. It puzzles me to this day why Apple went for such a botched design for its keyboard.
