My own experience with this has seen no losses so far though. Water will not normally damage electronic equipment if there is no power.īut keep this as a last resort - in some cases the keyboard will after all not survive this operation. Not much got everywhere, but some of it appears to have gotten stuck underneath at least 3 keys mainly the 'T' & 'Y' keys, as well as the screen-brightness reduction key in the top left of the keyboard.
#Macbook air clean space key pro
Don't use it, until you are confident all the water has evaporated. Had an unfortunate encounter involving my new 2013 13' MacBook Air & some ketchup. Replacement Spacebar Key Cap and Hinge and Base Gasket for MacBook Pro Retina 12'/13'/15' A1706 A1707 A1708 2016-2017 a1534 2017 Year Keyboard Space Bar Key Cap Keycaps Keys 3.1 out of 5 stars 12 29.95 29. Shake as much of the water out as you can, then place it close to an open window or onto a radiator. Our MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM scored a resounding 5,962 on the Geekbench 5.2 overall performance test, crushing the XPS 13 (5,319, Core i7-1165G7) with an 11th Gen (Tiger lake) Intel Core. If it is a wireless keyboard make sure you remove the batteries first!Īfter the wash make sure you allow the keyboard to dry completely. I then choose Utilitie s > Startup Security Utility from the menu bar. You can also wash some of the usual things with it as long as they are not too dirty (mugs, cups, plates as long as there is no food on them). The MacBook then booted into a recovery space. Place the keyboard key-face down and run the program, including detergent and all as you would your dishes. To add to existing answers: one desperate but great way of cleaning really messy keyboards is the dish washing machine.