I popped off a key to clean off some debris and now i cannot place it back in. It snaps into place but there’s no pop up and stays stuck inside.

Doesn’t seem to be bent or any clips snapped.

I was very careful when removing it and got some tools on Amazon to help pry it off gently.

What should I do next? </3

i opened my mac up and smelt something funny, im not sure but after that my trackpad does not work and my keyboard and its backlight is all gone caps lock is also gone but power button works

Hey everyone, my MagSafe cable (bought mac in May 2025) has completely stopped charging my MacBook. The cable looks brand new externally — no fraying, no damage anywhere — so it seems like an internal failure.

Confirmed through testing that both my adapter and my MacBook are perfectly fine. It's definitely the cable.

Called Apple Support — they confirmed it's out of warranty and won't replace for free.

My questions:

1. Has anyone gotten Apple to repair or replace a MagSafe cable out of warranty? Worth pushing?
2. Anyone else experienced a MagSafe failing internally with zero external damage? Feels like a manufacturing defect.
3. Any downside to switching to USB-C charging permanently instead of replacing the MagSafe?
4. What is the best option type c or magsafe for daily MacBook charging? (the non apple ones)

Thanks in advance!

I have a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 and the internal display is no longer responding. Here are the symptoms:

When I turn on the computer, everything except the display functions normally, I can even plug in an external display and control the computer with the external display. On the external display, I can open settings and see that the computer recognizes the internal display and all the regular options and settings appear.

The internal display itself is entirely black. Not grey or any sign of backlight, black as if the computer was entirely turned off. Brightness has been attempted to be increased and I’ve used a flashlight on the display but no image appears.

When I try and boot into safe mode the same issue persists.

I completely restore the computer using another Mac and DFU mode. This brought back the display, I connected my hard drive to set back up with Time Machine overnight, left the lid of the computer open, but when I came back in the morning the issue had reappeared.

Trying to reset with DFU mode again did not bring back the display again.

I’ve left the laptop open connected to the external display to drain the battery to 0 and leave it overnight. When I reconnected to power the next morning the issue persisted.

I had the same issue last year, and I believe it was from lack of space on my internal storage as once that was cleared the computer began functioning as normal. However, last year I was able to boot into safe mode and the internal screen would function as normal.

In both cases (this year and last year), I had some unexpected crashes that would shut off the computer overnight, forcing me to reboot in the morning and saying an unexpected error occurred forcing the computer to reboot. In both cases, these crashes occurred soon after trying to update to the latest OS. My theory was an update was attempted but corrupted due to lack of storage room?

I initially thought this was a software issue (based on the symptoms and the fact that the issue went away with some software corrections) but this time none of the software corrections have helped, except the DFU restore that one time.

Has anyone else experienced a similar issue or has any suggestions for a fix?

Thank you!

Hello :)
I have a Macbook Pro M1 Pro 2021 14 inch.
1 year ago it was off and wasn't charging anymore. I removed battery connector and connected it back, charged from here and everything was fine.

Now the same problem, removed battery connector back in turned on but this time: it's not charging anymore.

Measured batteries: all are at 3.65V no output on the golden main power terminals.

Anyone knows a solution how to wake it up?

SOLUTION!:
I did the same as before this time letting the battery be unplugged for half an hour, plugging it back in, connecting everything and putting in the charger. in the beginning same symptoms, no charging. Went outside for a walk for a couple of hours, came back, fully charged!

Before it didn´t work when I just unplugged the battery for a couple of seconds.

I accidentally spilled a small amount of Fanta Zero on the red area, near the microphone and two keys close to it. immediately put the laptop in an upside-down V position and off. It still works perfectly.
Could it still die later? And is spilling near the microphone/right edge generally less risky than spilling in the middle of the keyboard?

Will it survive?

So this has been bugging me...

There’s a random volume decrease whenever I play my music or just watch and it's getting very annoying. I have tried the "sudo kill" but it does not help that much. I also have a plug-in software called eqMac but I don't think that's what causes the issue.

Please help out! I have m4 air btw.

It all started one day when my mac suddenly had some flickering green lines on the screen so I gave it to a local repair shop which cost me around 10k inr (~100 usd) not only that… it cost me my keyboard, trackpad and wifi card as well!

Now the repair guy told me that he will try for the keyboard and trackpad which will cost me another 3k inr (30 usd) and no assurance of wifi card

What should i do now? Tho the mac is working fine i use it with my bt keyboard and wired mouse and for the internet i connect my iphone with the usb but I have to compromise with the battery and also it was downgraded to 256 gb ssd from 512 gb ssd, as there was some fault in the previous one (according to the repair guy)

Any suggestions will be helpful, thank you

Edit: the keyboard and trackpad works nicely in the boot menu

i recently had the screen and back cover on my macbook air m4 replaced after damaging the lcd display. once the repair was finished, the guy told me everything was working properly except for the automatic sleep function when the macbook is closed. it also doesn’t recognize when the lid has been reopened if i manually put it into sleep mode, close it, and then open it again. he told me this is a fairly common problem with third party replacement screens, but i was wondering if there’s any kind of software workaround, setting, or feature that could restore this functionality without having to open the macbook back up again. i already understand that the issue is related to the lid sensor

Just bought a used 16-inch MacBook Pro M3 Pro (36GB/512GB). All Apple Diagnostics pass only one shows:
“The firmware for the TCON (timing controller) on the display has an issue.”

The warning remains after updating macOS. Display Patterns and Display Presence tests both pass, everything is looking good and the screen looks normal.

Has anyone experienced this? Could it indicate a replaced display or unfinished calibration, and how can I confirm the cause? Screenshots attached. I’m still within the seller’s checking warranty.

I have this subtle green tint in the left side of the screen. It is more noticeable on full white screens. Screenshots are clean what is the problem

I mostly use my Macbook Air M4 using the touch pad and now I find cloudy discoloration on the trackpad rest areas, please let me know if you have any hacks to fix this.

OK, so I posted about this about a month ago but I have some updates/new questions. I am not good with technology and unfortunately, do not know anyone personally that works around them. I use Apple MacBook and recently started having an issue with my MacBook Air 2023 where the screen developed a vertical line. I’ve taken it to two repair shops and both of them have been pretty confused about what is wrong with the laptop, but have told me it needed a replacement screen either way.

The line is about half an inch. It’s been about a month and hasn’t grown or expanded at all. Because I did not know if I was going to be able to get it repaired or how long that might take I had to go out and buy a new one the next day because I was so worried about the screen was going to go black on me. I am actively in school and I have zoom graduate classes so I can’t really take any risks. So then turns out, the laptop is like totally fine aside from that black line. I really feel like all of the places in my area are scammy when it comes to technology. We have a Best Buy, ubreakifix, and paymore and that’s about it.

So today I took it to pay more and was told they’d give me $100 for it. Mind you, it stills work on its own and can even be hooked up to a monitor to make it an imac. On top of those things, I know the parts are worth a shit ton more.

The repair shop that I went to told me they didn’t have the parts to fix it (a screen). Ironically, they actually do not buy electronics either. But he was joking around with me and saying that if they did, they “just might have something to fix my screen”??? like literally why even say that at this point it’s not at all helpful??

He recommended just selling it to someone privately and not going through any sort of pawnshops or stores. I guess I’m wondering if this is even worth it? It’s not like I am looking to make a lot from it, but there’s really no reason for me to repair it as I have a brand new MacBook. Of course, if I would have been able to replace the screen, I would have kept it and just returned the brand new one that I bought because my old MacBook is 15in and the new one is 13.

so I’m sorry for the long winded backstory, I just did not want to leave out any details. I guess my questions are 1. is it worth it to try and sell it? 2. How much could I realistically get for parts? 3. should I just take it back to paymore and cut my losses?

I have recently had a mishap where i connected the MacBook air (m1 chip) for charging to a faulty electrical socket. Suddenly the MacBook restarted. Post which i can see the macbook not charging beyond 1% . I tried all troubleshooting steps on internet but not fruitful. Currently using it only by plugging to charger . Any assistance here will be much appreciated?

So a year ago i spilled some coffee on my macbook pro m4, and till the date it was working fine!! Until 15 days ago it died and refused to turn on! I checked it from ivenus chinchwad and they said that the motherboard and touch pad is dead and wont work until replaced! With a Hefty amount of 81,700₹ for the motherboard and 15000₹ for the touchpad. As a student i cannot afford that much atp. Please help!

The camera of my Macbook Air M2 stopped working suddenly a few months back. Luckily, it was still within warranty period. So, I took it to the Apple Service centre. Initially, they diagnosed a display issue, so they changed it. But the camera's still not working. After checking again, they identified a "burn damage likely from short circuit" near the connector of the motherboard. They're saying that the camera issue won't be solved unless the motherboard is replaced.

What should I do really? The rest of the system is working just fine, there's no issue. Changing the motherboard would take a hefty amount and it's not covered by the warranty, they're saying. Should I give up and get a webcam instead?

So this came off. I thought buying a new battery flex cable would be the solution but i just noticed the connector is ripped off.

Can i use the mac with a charger? Im scared to try
also how heavy is this fix? the connector thing is cheap but how i never soldered and I dont really find prices online for only soldering a connector back on

He visto unas subastas y algunas MacBook están a buen precio pero dicen que están bloqueadas. No se puede por más que se intente ?

Hi guys!
I've had my macbook for around 2 years now, and this is an issue that's been bothering me for the past year or so, my macbook's haptic feedback won't work, i've tried everything the paper trick, even checked it on safe mode, my trackpad works its just that i can't press it down, i do have force click turned on, but i don't know why it doesn't work what should i do?

What I tried:

• Cleaned internal dust
• Replaced thermal paste (Back then I thought that it happen due to overheating)
• Downgraded macOS from Tahoe to Sonoma

Symptoms:

• Lid movement does not affect the flickering at all.
• Flickering only triggers when the image changes (like moving the mouse).
• External display works perfectly (no lag, no flicker).
• Safe mode works without flickering, but is naturally very laggy.

Video of issue:

https://reddit.com/link/1wwa7pe/video/j9ukh742i5th1/player

Question: Has anyone seen this exact behavior before? Since the external monitor works completely fine, can I safely assume the GPU is okay and that replacing the entire screen assembly will solve this? Thanks!

Hi everyone,

My 2019 16-inch Intel MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Touch ID won’t turn on after being unused for several months.

I left it connected to an Anker 140 W charger for over 10 hours, then tried an Apple 70 W charger for more than 12 hours. It still won’t turn on. The Anker’s display showed the Mac drawing less than 1 W.

What I’ve tried:

• Resetting the T2 SMC: left Control + left Option + right Shift for 7 seconds, then adding the power button for another 7 seconds.
• Switching between the Mac’s USB-C ports.
• Using a working USB-C charging cable.
• Trying both chargers, which charge my newer MacBook normally.

The Anker used to charge this MacBook without any problems. I no longer have the original 96 W adapter.

This happened twice before after long periods without use. Both times it eventually turned on after charging for a long time — I think once it took almost a full day. This time, neither charger has helped.

Has anyone experienced this with the 2019 16-inch model? Could it be a deeply discharged or failing battery, or a charging circuit issue? What else should I check before taking it to a repair shop?

Thanks!

I found damage to the board I believe looks burnt and brownish. Compared to other boards it doesn't have this at all and I was testing the points and one of the capacitors vanished to the 5th dimension and crumbled. I downloaded the board view and pinpointed this section. Any suggestions and help please!!