![]() ![]() He told me that they would need to send it out for repair and couldn't give me an estimate for the repairs. I called my local Apple Store and asked a technician for an estimate for the repair cost I'm facing if I'm no longer under warranty and my space bar goes kaput and stays that way. I then turned it around so it was facing sideways the other way and sprayed again. 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. ![]()
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