Keys Sticking? Letters Repeating?

What This Repair Covers

• Full keyboard replacement (top-case level where required)
• Individual key and mechanism repair where feasible
• Butterfly keyboard (2016–2019) failure repair
• Liquid-spill keyboard damage assessment and repair
• Backlight and Touch Bar checks after keyboard work

Signs You Need This Repair

• Keys repeating letterss liike thiis
• Keys that need hard presses or don’t register
• Sticky or crunchy key feel after dust or a spill
• Multiple dead keys in one region of the keyboard
• Keyboard dead but an external keyboard works

What Could Be Wrong

Debris under the keys

Dust and crumbs under low-travel key mechanisms cause sticking, repeating or dead keys.

Liquid spills

Liquid runs under the keyboard and often reaches the board. The keyboard symptom is usually the visible part of a larger problem.

Key mechanism wear

Broken clips or worn scissor mechanisms on individual keys after heavy use.

Flex or board fault

If no keys work at all, the fault is often the keyboard flex connection or the board rather than the keys.

What We Check

Before any quote, and before anything is opened up:

• Identify your exact model and keyboard generation
• Test every key and map which ones fail
• Check whether the trackpad and backlight are affected too, which points to a connector or board fault
• Inspect for liquid residue and corrosion
• Test an external keyboard to confirm the fault is in the built-in one

How We Handle It

The 2016–2019 butterfly keyboards fail from little more than dust — a single grain under a key can kill it. Later scissor-mechanism keyboards are more robust but still vulnerable to liquid. Because Apple integrates the keyboard into the top case on most models, a proper fix is more involved than prying off a keycap, and doing it wrong damages the backlight and battery mounting.

When you bring a MacBook with keyboard trouble to iFix Guwahati, we first establish whether the fault is mechanical (dust, worn mechanism), electrical (flex cable, board connection) or liquid-related — a spill that killed three keys today can corrode the logic board next month, so we inspect beyond the keyboard itself. You get a clear recommendation: individual key repair where it will actually last, or a keyboard/top-case replacement where it won’t.

Your Repair Options

Cleaning and key mechanism repair

For debris and individual key faults, cleaning or replacing key mechanisms may be enough.

Keyboard or top case replacement

On models where the keyboard is integrated into the top case, replacement covers the whole assembly. We explain what that involves for your model.

Board-level repair after a spill

Where liquid has reached the board, that damage is dealt with first — a new keyboard over a corroded board solves nothing.

Models We Work On

MacBook Air and MacBook Pro across Intel and Apple Silicon generations, including butterfly-keyboard models, subject to parts availability.

Still using an older device? That's completely fine. We've been repairing Apple devices for 10+ years, so older models are part of what we see every day. Whether a specific repair is possible depends on the model, parts availability, the type of damage and the device's overall condition — tell us what you have and we'll give you a straight answer.

What Affects the Price

We don't publish fixed prices, because an honest quote depends on what we actually find. These are the things that move it:

• Your exact model and year, and the keyboard generation
• Whether it is a cleaning, individual keys or a full assembly
• Whether liquid damage is involved
• Whether the trackpad or battery share the same assembly on your model

Diagnosis carries a fee — waived when you go ahead with the repair. You get a clear quote before any work starts. Send us your device details or call +91 91271 99144 for a device-specific estimate.

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