By akademiotoelektronik, 10/08/2022

Papillon keyboard: The repair program soon expires for the first customers of MacBook Pro 2016 |Macgeneration

If the keyboard of your MacBook Pro 2016 no longer works properly, do not wait to have it repaired.The repair program set up by Apple will soon come to an end for the first customers of this generation of machines.

This program, which opens right to one (or more, if necessary) free repair, concerns the problems of the famous keyboard with butterfly mechanism, too sensitive to dust: letters or characters which are repeatedly repeated;Letters or characters that do not appear;or even one or more keys which are "blocked" or do not respond in a coherent way.

The program covers MacBook 2015 to 2017 as well as MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 2016 at 2019 “during the 4 years following the first retail sale of the product."This means that if you bought a MacBook Pro 13" or 15 "at the time of their launch at the end of 2016 (they arrived in November), the repair program is only valid for a few weeks for you.

If, like me, the keyboard of your MacBook Pro 2016 has already been replaced once, know that this operation does not reset the counter to zero.The four years of cover always start from the date of purchase.The replacement keyboard is guaranteed 90 days.An aberration, since the replacement keyboards, which are at best 2nd generation butterflies (introduced with the MacBook Pro 2017), are always very sensitive to dust-I have experienced it myself, with a secondCurrent repair.

Once the four years of the program have passed, it will be necessary to pray for the apple cleaning advice to be able to avoid failure.Otherwise, the repair will be paying and salty (€ 540 in the last quote that was provided to me), since it is the top case, that is to say the upper part of the chassis which also includes the battery, whichis replaced.