I then turned my MacBook Pro sideways - keeping it at the nearly vertical angle - and sprayed some more air.I grabbed my can of compressed air and sprayed all around the space bar.

I held my MacBook Pro at a nearly vertical angle - Apple says 75 degrees is the magic number.After a trip to Staples for a can of compressed air, I got to work. Next, I consulted Apple Support's guide on how to clean the keyboard. Since I use my MacBook Pro primarily at my kitchen table and my local bagel shop (and always opt for an everything bagel), I figured a poppy seed, a piece of dried onion or garlic or a bread crumb got lodged underneath my space bar.įirst, I first tried blowing underneath the spacer bar to dislodge any trapped foreign matter. When I my space bar stopped working, I discovered numerous tales of woe in various forums about dirt, crumbs or even a speck of dust getting underneath a key and interfering with the delicate butterfly mechanism. After all, I'm not the only one with a faulty MacBook Pro space bar - songs have been written about it. I was able to fix my space bar issue, but I'm worried it'll return - and will do so the day after my warranty runs out next month. Unfortunately for me, that's the side I use to, you know, add spaces between words. Or, more specifically, when the right side of the space bar stopped working. A few months later, I was merrily typing away - while wondering how I ever enjoyed the feel of the mushy keys on my previous MacBook Pro - when the space bar suddenly stopped working. When I traded my old MacBook Pro for a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, it took me a few days to get accustomed to typing on the shallow, butterfly keyboard.

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