You'll want to rotate it out 90 degrees first. The small end is trickier and more fragile. I just ran a small screwdriver beneath the clip and it immediately popped out. It's easiest to detach the big end first. You need to pull the white scissor clip out from the key before reattaching.be very careful not to damage the silicon membrane beneath the key as you jab stuff underneath the key.If you watch the video carefully, you'll see this, but it's not obvious. as you lift up the edge of the key, you have to push a little white tab in to release the key.
#How to clean a macbook pro keyboard after a spill how to#
You can tell from this entry that my keyboard is mostly working: it went through some weird states where the 4 key stopped working and certain key combos wouldn't work, but these got better the more keys I cleaned.īefore embarking on this, I did some Google searches and eventually found this video, which was the most useful for learning how to remove keys from the Macbook Pro keyboard. I was able to get the responsiveness back by prying off the individual keys, soaking them in water, scraping out the gunk underneath, and reattaching. Now that it was clear that I couldn't throw money at the problem and make it go away quickly, I decided to clean it myself. They even offered a cheaper cleaning option instead of full keyboard replacement.
AllMac was much better - they said they could fix it in a day, but I would have to come back during a weekday. It also came with a threat - if they found anything else wrong, they would "depot it" and charge me $1200. Apple wanted five days and $300+ to fix it. My first thought was to get a new keyboard, but my trips to the Apple Genius Bar were discouraging. The eggnog turned to glue overnight, so while the electronics survived intact (the backlight was the one fatality), the keyboard was basically useless. My dog Ninja knocked over a full glass of eggnog onto my unibody Macbook Pro.