If only every youtube tutorial was this well made... Just what I needed. Excellent job organizing/labelling the sections, and perfect camera angles and speedy narration.
Great tutorial. So helpful and detailed. My keys were sticky and I couldn't take anymore. Thank you for making it plain and simple for a nontechnical person like me. I am so proud of myself. I did it!! Great video
Very impressed. This has got to be the most comprehensive and fool-proof and understandable step by step that I've watched for any how-to on RU-vid. I usually end the video with more questions than I had at the start because the demonstrator assumes too much and leaves out important details. Refreshing to see that someone has it all together. Looking forward to seeing what else this guy can show me!
omg, this was FANTASTIC. Thank you so much for making this video, so detailed and efficient. I had spilled coffee on my keyboard (first time EVER in like 25 years). I immediately turned the board off and put it upside down on some paper towels with some gentle weight on it until the next day. but the space bar was sticking when I went to use it. I used a knife to get the key off, which I know is generally a bad idea because it can slip and cause even more issues. But I took my time, and everything works beautifully now!
Great video. The explanations really helped. After a year of frustration trying to fix my spacebar, I finally was able to fix it with your help. Thanks for the help!
Excellent video. My right return and right shift key were sticking on my extended Magic KB 2. After checking out another video on the subject, I found this video and following along got my keys to working as good as new again. Showing how the metal clips fit onto the keyboard and the keys themselves was worth its weight in gold. Thanks.
Thank you so much! My daughter spilled orange juice on my keyboard and I thought it was done for and I'd have to shell out $100 to buy a new one. Great information! So appreciation!
One of the best tutorials I have seen. Incredibly detailed and I was able to follow each part without worry. (Well, without very much worry.) Thanks for your expertise.
Thank you, I was actually able to fix my "f" key by removing it as you showed, blowing any invisible dust off the underside of the key, then simply replacing it without doing the extra steps.
Thanks, this was super useful. I've cleaned every key on my keyboard except the return key, which on the UK layout is thin and extends over two rows of keys (so it's considerably taller than it is wide). I haven't tried to remove it for fear of it breaking. Do you know which side the clips will be on? It doesn't look like they would be on the bottom.,
I really wish I could go back in time and not do what I just did. I can't reinstall the command key properly and I've tried my best to be really careful and precise. It gets stuck down or twists slightly and then ends up getting re-stuck. I appreciate the instructions but I must have done something wrong.
Might be too late for you but if anyone have this problem, the back of the key has a small bending that might be bended more than necessary while you were trying to remove the key. Just try to bend it back to normal position (you can compare it with another healthy key)
I thought the same thing and @iamdijki is right. I bent the key from each corner until I noticed it look flatter on the top and the key went back on correctly
Thanks for the detailed instructions. I couldn’t however place back my left shift. It’s actually placed in, but it seemed stuck and not springy. The button has no metal strings. Any idea how to place it?
A great video, thank you. I have been having problems with the space bar sticking. I thought it was dirt. I took it apart following your video, cleaned it out and it still doesn't move hardly at all. I am not sure what is supposed to move the key back up after being pressed down, but it looks like a rubber bump in the middle that compresses air. That is shot. Looks like a new keyboard for me. Dang. Thanks again.
Thank you so much, my "H" key wasn´t working so i managed to take of the kye an found out that a little sand piece was stuck in between. Its finally working again!
Thanks. At 6:47, when you _“make sure that little metal bar goes into place,”_ exactly how does it have to… go into place? Does it slide under some little tab or hook of the keyboard, or is it basically self-contained within the key cap itself?
@@thecollegepicker Worked. I think the top hook is a bit tighter and flimsier on this model. It took about 5 tries, but I finally got the top part hooked correctly before clicking in the bottom half. That seems to be the most important step, correctly connecting the top half.
@@thecollegepicker no, everything as Apple said - it is really Magic Keyboard 2 in MacBook :) My friend bought a bluetooth keyboard and compared them - looks the same
Hello, what about the Lock/Eject key? It's mounted backwards from the other keys and I forced a little. I can't put it back in, I don't see any signs of breakage...
Interesting that the undersides of the keys on my A1243 keyboard do not have the same clips/snaps configuration. They look different, so they didn't come off or snap back in like in the video. Can you suggest why and how to remove and re-attach? Thanks very much!
Thank you very much for this video! As I understood the switches of this keyboard and the latest MacBook M1 keyboards are very similar. But is it possible to put key caps from MacBook to the Magic Keyboard (this one or some newer model with touch ID)?
Silicon dry lube works better well for sticky keys... Be careful with the base bar so you don't bend the wire hangers! I bent mine and had to bend them back but overall the repair was success.
I effed up my delete key trying to take it off to clean underneath it. Is there any way you know to get a new delete key? I only need the black key top, nothing else. Any suggestions?
I've removed and reinstalled Space bar key, and now it doesn't work in some positions 😐 I think it because it has those little metal connectors which are extremely easy to bend and if you did it, you're screwed.
Trust me. One more important thing missing. fn and right arrow key is opposite directions from other square keys. You have to pry from the top for these two keys. I have learned it hard way.
This is great, I now have a like new keyboard. I went out, got a little precision screwdriver set and rubbing alcohol at the dollar store. I'm messy, so I figure this will happen again. But at least for a month or so this will do fine.
Where does one buy replacement key caps and the scissor switches? I have a broken switch under the right arrow on the bottom right that needs replacing.
STOP!!!! 🛑 My keybd looks exactly like the one in this vid. Well, STOP!! The keys on my L8 2019 keybd are WAY different. DO NOT take off the keys on your A.M.K. unless you check the model #. Cause this Utoober, saying 'they are all pretty much the same...' THEY R NOT! My 2019 iMac keys have a metal hinge bar inside. These don't. Re-attaching the keys on my keydb to the top of the scissor is one of thee most difficult things I've ever encountered, working on peripherals for 15+ yrs. I couldn't get it right. I finally got them to WORK, using a guitar string to hold up the top of the scissor while fitting them from the top down... but they're lopsided, and I know they aren't 100% perfect. But after 10 or 15 attempts at snapping them back, only to have them lie flat and motionless... I'll take it. You will B sorry if your keys have a metal hinge bar. They DO NOT respond to intuitive patience, lol!!!
I have a sticky space bar, and after watching this decided it looked to scary (until such time as I can find a broken keyboard to practice on). However, realising the sticky key was proably a result of my bad habit of eating at my desk, I figured it was probably just a tiny crumb causing it. It followed that if I tapped the keyboard on its rear edge it would probably dislodge the crumb. I did this, and it worked!
Thank you for ACTUALLY explaining the mechanism underneath the keys...which no other video seems to do. Much appreciated!! I couldn't get my keys to spring back until I understood that I should slide the top of the keys down before I clip in the bottom! Thank you very much!
@@thecollegepicker hey am I doing something wrong? I've been trying to put my space back on for 2 days and it just gets stuck at to the bottom. And when I put back my r key, it is a bit rotated to the right
@@xdpplays8002I have the same problem with my „v“ key its in and the spring kinda works but i doesnt go up as high as the other keys and is also rotated to the right 5:21
Bro. This video is so comprehensive and the presentation so well-organized. I swear, every RU-vid tutorial should be presented like this.Thank you for making this so easy and accessible, all the way through.
This is my final straw. I know Apple purposely made this so hard so we don’t repaired ourselves f this I’ve been using them for 20 years I’m done. I can’t get the front hooks to hook in properly. Every time I try it matter how much I bend it at get stuck when I push it down.
For anyone in the future: my tiny key hooks in lower half of key were misshapen after removal of enter key. I used my eyeglasses flathead to prop the plastic back into a square/rectangle shape and it works fine again.
I followed the steps for my caps lock key, and for some reason now it goes back on completely flat. It doesn't pop anymore. It's just down all the way. What the heck is going wrong?! :( Help!
My recent most annoying computer issue has finally been solved thanks to your expert help!! Finally mmmmy MMMMmmm key is no longer sticky! Awesommmmme! Thank you so very much for taking your time to explain this in such detail and with such patience! Greatest possible explanation of these procedures I've ever found, and the first time I haven't damaged anything in the process! Huzzah!!!
Great detailed tutorial. My 0 and right key have been sticky for a while and it finally got to the point where the 0 wouldn't spring back at all. This was detailed and had good camera angles to get me in to see the process. Thanks and great video!
I put the keys back and they just sit flat no matter what I try. I tried to save myself paying $100 for another keyboard. Only a couple of keys dont work though and thise were the ones I tried to clean
Unfortunately didn't help. The installation of the actual cap is very brief and not clear to me. Sadly the cap gets stuck being pressed down when I try to reinstall it.
Magic Keyboard with Touch ID (White) Command key replacement with old Magic Keyboard. The Command key for the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID (White) P/N: A2449 is fading, I do have an old Magic Keyboard P/N: A1644, with a good Command key, can I swap the keys? Are they interchangeable? Thanks NOTE: Both keyboard are almost identical, aluminum, lightning port for charging, the only external difference is that the 4 corner keys are rounded on the outside in the Touch ID keyboard, the old one are square all around, the Command key looks identical.
SO HELPFUL! I watched many tutorials but this one is the best. As others said, the explanation of the mechanism was key. While my space bar only had one metal rod (at the bottom) I was able to follow your video and finally fixed it. Thank you!!!
Why everyone lies about cats puking on their keyboards??? Wtf is wrong with you people? If a cat wanna vomit, will she, he try get on top of your desk and find the keyboard, then vomit?! Why you got to lie, cuz you simply dirty yourself that keyboard and put the blame on a cat? Fff sake! I just want to find one single person that came here cuz their cat puke on their keybord! Literarly you post a pic of a vomit over kb, but in video yr kb is clean!
I just wanted to clean my sticky keyboard according to this great video. But, miracle happened and my keyboard is working fine without any cleaning and removing keys! What happened? I have sprinkled my keyboard with tea several weeks ago. It was then sticky and squeaking. Yesterday I took it from office and travelled by car to home. Keyboard was in my backpack in vertical position turned off. I put the keyboard at home to normal position on the table. Next day this keyboard was repaired by itself! I do not know why. I think, that maybe vibrations helped to shift away dirt from keys and/or changed humidity in my house could helped to get rid of dirt. Do you have any idea what happened?
