The butterfly keyboard defects led to legal action and criticism from users. Apple switched to scissor switch keyboards in 2019, formally apologizing for the butterfly keyboard in the same year.

Were you involved in a typing accident that left you with double keypresses or no keypress at all? Were your laptop keys sticky and/or unresponsive, in a way that left you with lasting trauma?

If you had a particular key issue with a Butterfly keyboard, it would require your MacBook to take a trip to an Apple repair center. The switch used on the Butterfly keyboard that appeared with ...

Now, in response to the keyboard problems, Apple has begun a keyboard service program to fix or replace keyboards with faulty butterfly switch mechanisms. From Apple’s support page about the program: ...

Apple has agreed to pay $50m (£41.6m) to settle a legal action by claimants in the US, over its MacBook keyboards. Customers in seven states claimed the technology giant had sold the "butterfly ...

the scissor switch leaves more room around the keys to tolerate debris, writes iFixit, which is important considering Apple's previous butterfly keyboards were prone to issues. The new keyboard ...

That's all thanks to Apple's revamped scissor key switch mechanism, which includes a newly designed key cap and rubber dome compared to the older Butterfly mechanism. The new keyboard design also ...