WWDC 2018 will mark a year since Apple last updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro lineup, and both models are due for an upgrade soon, given that Intel’s eighth-generation Core processors have been out for a few months and already made their way to plenty of competitor’s machines. But it still doesn’t seem to be enough, judging by the online discourse. The company has actually revised the butterfly switches twice already - once when going from the original MacBook to the MacBook Pro, which added slightly more key travel and then again last year, when iFixit found that Apple had added additional reinforcement to the key switches. Throughout all this time, Apple has remained mostly silent on the issue, merely pointing users toward a how-to page on its site that recommends cleaning the keyboard out with compressed air. The question is, what is Apple going to do about it? The new key switches have the unfortunate tendency to fail completely after just a single spec of dust or two manages to find its way under the keys, with a delicate design that makes removing them to clear out the offending dust a dangerous proposition that can destroy your keyboard if done incorrectly.Īccording to a report from AppleInsider, the 2016 MacBook Pro keyboards are more than twice as likely to fail than the older switches on Apple’s previous Retina MacBook Pro design, and there’s currently a pair of proposed class action lawsuits against Apple over the keyboard. The butterfly style switches - which Apple first introduced with the 12-inch MacBook in 2015, and then brought over to the MacBook Pro lineup with the 2016 redesign - are famously problematic, with the issue really coming into the spotlight after Casey Johnston wrote about them at The Outline. It’s not exactly a secret that Apple’s updated MacBook and MacBook Pro have keyboard issues.

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