If you’ve been using your MacBook Pro for a while without cleaning its keyboard, chances are it’s pretty gross. But no need to worry, with the right tools and techniques, you can safely clean your keyboard without causing any damage.
Here’s what you’ll need: a bottle of water with a spray top, a clean microfiber towel, a soft brush for your vacuum cleaner, and q-tips or cotton buds depending on where you live.
Start by gently brushing over the keyboard with your soft brush in a north-south then east-west fashion to loosen any dry bonded soil. Once that’s done, grab your vacuum cleaner and gently go over the keys to remove all of the loosened dirt.
Next, grab a cotton bud and run it through the first line of keys with medium pressure. You’re going to want to flip the board over and then continue through each line of keys changing the cotton bud for a new one as they get dirty. Then work your way back up the keyboard horizontally to go in between the keys in the other direction.
After that, vacuum the keyboard again to get any loosened soil off and move on to the wet cleaning phase. Grab your folded microfiber towel and your spray bottle of water and move away from the MacBook. Give a couple of sprays onto the towel but make sure that it’s not dripping wet. Rub your hand into it to move the moisture into the towel. This is a low-moisture clean; you just want the towel to be damp.
In a north-south fashion, work your way over the keyboard. Then repeat the same process in the opposite direction to get as much of the soil out. Afterward, wipe over the keyboard with a dry microfiber towel. Give the rest of the aluminum and trackpad a wipe with the damp microfiber before giving it all one last buff with a dry microfiber to get rid of any smudges and smears.
And there you have it! Your keyboard is now clean and ready to use.
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