@jcwacky I could not understand your suggestions here. Like many others I've been unable to reattach the Spacebar key to the Magic Keyboard. Unlike other previous keyboards, this spacebar uses a design that makes it very difficult to reattach.

The main problem is as described, you reattach and it stays stuck down. From what I can tell, there is an orientation where small clips connect to the butterfly mechanism. Those go toward the bottom I think.

However, no number of other attempts make the key attach properly. I can not see any way to fix this. There are no youtube videos showing how to reattach the spacebar on the magic keyboard. Closest thing I found was someone saying it was nearly impossible and their key works worse now.

I'm super bummed I tried to clean this.

I spent a bunch more time on this and was able to restore the key. It was not as good as before, but it did get back into place and it is now usable again.

One major issue with this is that the metal pins used to hold the metal bracket ends can bend or warp fairly easily. I think that a bent pin may have been what caused the stickiness on my space key in the first place.

Here's my guide: Come riattaccare la barra spaziatrice alla Magic Keyboard

are these tools available in India?

Someone has any luck in finding keys to the keyboard to solve this "stays pushed down as if it was pressed" problem (@artur; @lvdw)? It's not a clip properly @JamesCocker, if I change places with another key, the other key is working normal, in my case its really a "broken key" problem...

Thank you all!

To solve the key stuck problem, do as James Cocker suggested! Let me try to explain again. You need to slide the keycap UP first so the top part latches to the little clips at the top, then press down on the bottom part. This will let the keys spring back. If you just press down on the top and bottom parts to push in the key, it will stay down and won’t work.

I have a question myself, I spilled sticky fluid on my keyboard. 3 keys now don't work and 1 is outputting 2 letters. How do I clean it? I was going to try to take the battery out and run it under tap water and wait a week for it to dry in rice but it looks like a hassle to take the battery out…no hope here?

Is it possible to rearrange this keyboard to a dvorak layout? I tried with a previous wired apple keyboard and some keys were attached at a different orientation.

greetings from Spain, the problem of my keyboard A1644 is the SHIFT RIGHT key, it works intermittently, I have to give it several times to start working, once it works well during use, I removed the key and cleaned well all the possible part, I think the plastic key must be deformed because when I try to press directly on the inner rubber or I tighten the two side contacts works perfectly, under the rubber I can not clean it is stuck can this rubber be removed? I think that some liquid could get inside this rubber and that's why when I do the test without the key I put more pressure and it works.

I’ve removed the up and down arrow and I cannot put them back.

Here’s my Free Office Supplies Only method:

Soy sauce on the control key, took a sticky note and edged it down along the top edge of the key until it was under enough to pull up and gently dislodge the key. Snapped a wooden stirring stick in half and pulled the loose filaments out, then dampened it to use it as a fiber brush.

To re-insert, I slid the sticky note back under the top of the scissor switch in the key socket to keep it elevated, and reattached the metal hinge to the key and slid it up into the plastic hooks. I pressed down firmly from the bottom of the key to get those two little plastic bits on the bottom of the key piece into the spaces on the key socket, and then pressed down on the top until the top of the plastic switch snapped into the two little holes facing each other on the underside of the key, then removed the sticky note.

It stayed pressed down until I slid the sticky note back under the key from the top, and pulled up gently a few times. Key became springy again, with no stickiness.

Hello, I need help with the battery of this keyboard, where I can get or buy, another apple model is compatible, I can not find it to change, I have broken swollen.

The key needs to be slid in and then pressed down. The upper part of the key is a slide mechanism and the bottom part a click mechanism. Because of the upper part te key will “stand up“, thus creating the travel!

Wow this is sad. Many people are asking questions but nobody is providing solutions. I am not too optimistic but I will ask anyway - I spilled some beer on my keyboard and now all sorts of weird key combos are triggered when I hit certain letter keys. I thought maybe rinsing parts in water or alcohol would help. Wondering if anyone found a solution to this problem?

Thanks for this description : instead of repairing, I’ve completely destroyed my keyboard now.

Your steps mis one important action : before removing the inner layer, you need to unscrew the on/off button.

If not done, it will break when removing the layer, rendering the keyboard unusable. Thanks a lot.

Hello from Argentina, my magic keyboard begans to work bad since 2 days, you press 1 and appears 15, you press q and appears qt, you press a and appears ag, you press z and appears zb. Do you have any suggestion to solve it? thanks a lot!

i ve tried all of these and i think i managed to crack the metal grips inside the metal case. now my 3 buttons dont return back… anyone?

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Este es el tutorial más empalagoso que he leido en mi vida

I think I have a small colony of ants living in my keyboard. They don’t seem to be hurting anything or affecting the operation. It’s just annoying to have them emerge while I’m working. I’m afraid if I open it as demoed here, I’m likely to cause a problem where there isn’t really one…just an annoyance. Anybody got any ideas about how I could make the environment within the keyboard uncomfortable enough to drive them out without hurting the keyboard?

Thanks.

ALERT! This tutorial is NOT complete, switch ON/OFF is the most complicated stuff to manage here and it's not available in this tutorial.

ALERT! It's easy break two little plastic parts of the switch.

In my case key numbers 1,2,3,4, not work. Now keyboard didn't connect via Bluetooth. Waste of time, money and everything.

I recommend you do not open it.

Attention: I think one step was missed out. The step involving removing of the power switch, and there's a ribbon there. So if you follow through and did not remove the power switch screw and ribbon and proceeded to rip the plastic plate off you may tear the ribbon off from the power switch!!! Which I did! T_T

I have a Magic Keyboard that pairs fine, but doesn’t register any key presses. I have tried it with MacBook Pro, windows desktop, and iPad. Any tips?

does the battery have an ID attached to it like the iPhone? so that any third party batteries ( IF there are any ) cannot properly connect?