As you follow these steps, remember to use the straw included with the compressed air to control airflow, and keep the end of the straw about a half-inch away from the keyboard as you spray. Also remember to not invert the air can while you're spraying.
All of the laptops with integrated graphics, including the 10th-gen Core i7-1185G7 (MSI Prestige 14), Apple M1 (MacBook Pro), and Ryzen 7 4800U (Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7), come out on the bottom. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2019 using preproduction 2.3GHz 8-core Intel Core i9-based 16-inch MacBook Pro systems with 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 12 clicks from bottom or 75%. If your MacBook (2015 and later) or MacBook Pro (2016 and later) has an unresponsive key, or a key that feels different than the other keys when you press it, follow these steps to clean the keyboard with compressed air.
Hold your Mac notebook at a 75-degree angle, so it's not quite vertical.
Use compressed air to spray the keyboard, or just the affected keys, in a left-to-right motion.
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Rotate your Mac notebook to its right side and spray the keyboard again, from left to right.
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Repeat the action, this time with your Mac notebook rotated to its left side.
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- If any keys are still unresponsive after you've followed these steps, visit an Apple Retail Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider for service.
- Learn more about cleaning your other Apple products.