Apple has ended free repairs for butterfly keyboard issues on MacBooks from 2015-2019. The butterfly keyboard defects led to ...

even as Apple unveiled the second-generation butterfly keyboard with the 2016 MacBook Pro. Common complaints included sticky and unresponsive keys, as well as characters that appeared unexpectedly.

The butterfly-keyboard keys instead used a wing-like hinge. At the time, Apple said this mechanism ... it launched a repair and replacement programme, in 2018, that covered the keyboards for ...