{"id":27238,"date":"2019-11-07T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27238"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:23","slug":"limits-to-apples-butterfly-keyboard-repair-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/limits-to-apples-butterfly-keyboard-repair-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits to Apple&rsquo;s Butterfly Keyboard Repair Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appletoolbox.com\/the-secretive-limits-to-apples-butterfly-keyboard-repair-program\/\">Michael Peterson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appletoolbox.com\/the-secretive-limits-to-apples-butterfly-keyboard-repair-program\/\"><p>Unfortunately, there appear to be limits to how many times you can get a MacBook repaired under that keyboard repair program. Notably, that is something that&rsquo;s fairly unknown among the Apple community.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/doch9a\/macbook_keyboard_replacement_program_limited_to\/\">post they made back in October<\/a>, Reddit user spgremlin brought recently their 2016 MacBook Pro in for service for the third time. Under the Apple keyboard replacement, the user&rsquo;s first two repairs were completely free. As they should be.<\/p><p>But when the Redditor brought their MacBook Pro in a third time, the Genius Bar staff there told them it wasn&rsquo;t covered under the repair program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/tylenol-moment-for-apples-laptop-keyboards\/\">Tylenol Moment for Apple&rsquo;s Laptop Keyboards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/23\/apple-launches-keyboard-repair-program-for-macbook-and-macbook-pro\/\">Apple Launches Keyboard Repair Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Peterson: Unfortunately, there appear to be limits to how many times you can get a MacBook repaired under that keyboard repair program. Notably, that is something that&rsquo;s fairly unknown among the Apple community.[&#8230;]According to a post they made back in October, Reddit user spgremlin brought recently their 2016 MacBook Pro in for service for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"dc3da6dd-9db6-48bb-8038-91a4f6d17e16","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3D2m3Z22SLuAOJGk9tF-Fg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,423,30,1155,1173,100],"class_list":["post-27238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applecare","tag-keyboard","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbookpro"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27239,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions\/27239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}