![]() ↑ IFixit blog- Anatomy of a Butterfly (Keyboard)-Teardown Style, by Sam Lionheart.↑ iFixit - MacBook Pro 13" Function Keys Late 2016 Teardown.↑ Ars Technica live blog - Hello Again: Apple’s October 2016 Mac event Dated.↑ Apple - Apple Unveils All-New MacBook Dated.A payment of $125 goes to a customer that replaced one keyboard, with more to customers who replaced more than one, and $50 if only keycaps were replaced. The lawsuit concerned Apple's repair program: that it was insufficient to only replace a butterfly keyboard with another butterfly keyboard.Īpple agreed to a settlement in July 2022, and a payment plan was approved in November. It got certified as a Class Action suit in March 2021. ![]() īecause of reliability issues, a group of MacBook owners filed lawsuit against Apple in 2018. In 2019, Apple announced that it would fix faulty keyboards in certain models (stretching from 2015 to 2019), at no expense to the owner. The keyboards are also more expensive to repair, in part because how they are mounted within the laptop enclosures. The 2016 MacBook Pro keyboards supposedly fail twice as often in the first year of use as previous types of MacBook Pro keyboards that have a more conventional scissor switch/ rubber dome design. The MacBook "butterfly" keyboards are infamous for bad reliability. It was replaced with more traditional scissor switches with rubber domes, called Magic Keyboard like the keyboards for contemporary desktop Macintoshes. It got discontinued for new MacBook models in late 2019. IFixit showed that the protective membrane got changed from a poly-acetylene to a thicker layer of polyamide (nylon). When announcing the 2019 MacBook Pro, Apple told that the keyboard was slightly changed so as to be less susceptible to problems such as keys becoming unresponsive or chattering. According to Apple, it was added to reduce noise but it has been speculated that the real reason was to avoid failure in the "butterfly" mechanism from exposure to dust. The 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard got a protective membrane over the dome switch. The metal dome is heftier and mounted to the keycap. ![]() The keys are taller at the edges making them easier to find by feel. The 2016 MacBook Pro (13 and 15-inch, with or without touch bar) come with an updated mechanism. You can check out the full third-generation butterfly keyboard teardown through the source link below.Apple is using this mechanism along with a stainless-steel dome switch on the MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015). The publication also determined that Apple has made it easier to remove the spacebar on the third-gen butterfly keyboard, making it possible to remove it without breaking it. This may be a small fix, but it appears to help quite a bit for now. It is certainly possible that, over time, the third-gen keyboard can fall victim to similar issues as the first- and second-gen keyboards, though. However, that membrane does seem to do a good job of keeping particles and dust out of the keyboard. When the publication put that to the test, putting dust into the “danger zones” of the keyboard, they determined that it is indeed still possible for the third-generation keyboard to break down in a similar fashion to the second-gen keyboard. However, there is a hole in the membrane so that the keycap can connect, which means that it is still possible for dust and other particles to get into the keyboard. That silicone coverage is able to prevent a large amount of dust and small particles from finding a way deeper into the keyboard, which can potentially lead to sticking keys, and keys that don’t register a keypress at all. ![]() The publication compared the 2017 MacBook Pro keyboard and the 2018 MacBook Pro keyboards and determined that the small addition of the membrane beneath the keycaps does indeed help. And now iFixit has put together an in-depth look at the third-generation keyboard in the newest MacBook Pro models, confirming that the membrane does indeed help. However, the machines earned the teardown treatment after their launch and it was discovered that there is a “thin, silicone barrier” beneath the keycaps, which could help reduce dust and other small debris from messing anything up.Īpple’s own internal documentation has revealed that the membrane beneath the keycaps is indeed designed to help reduce the amount of dust and other small particles from getting under the keys and causing issues. Which eventually led to a repair program for those keyboards as well. Earlier this month, Apple launched a new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and also introduced a third-generation butterfly keyboard.Īt the time, Apple said that the new keyboard wasn’t designed to address any of the issues that have cropped up over the years, since the launch of the first-generation butterfly keyboard in the 12-inch MacBook back in 2015.
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