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Apple has recalled a lot of MacBooks recently. Your MacBook may exist eligible for free replacement of its battery, keyboard, logic board, display backlight, or another component. Hither's how to check whether you lot can go some gratis repairs.

Fifty-fifty if your MacBook is working fine, you should check for whatsoever available recalls—for example, one Apple MacBook battery call up notes that the bombardment "may overheat and cause a burn safety risk." If you take Apple up on the offering of free service, you're both getting a new, fresh battery and reducing the odds your MacBook will flare-up into flames.

How to Check Your MacBook's Model Number and Series Number

To know whether your MacBook is eligible, you'll demand to know its precise model name. You may also accept to provide Apple with its serial number.

To find this information, click the Apple icon on the menu bar at the top left corner of your Mac's display. Select "Well-nigh This Mac" in the card.

Opening About This Mac from the Mac's menu bar.

All the data you need is displayed correct hither. Your MacBook'due south model proper noun is displayed under the version number of macOS you have installed, and the series number is displayed to the right of "Serial Number" at the bottom of the list of information.

MacBook model number and serial number displayed in the About This Mac window.

Which Macs Are Eligible?

Apple offers a mostly complete listing of recalls, which the visitor calls "Exchange and Repair Extension Programs," on its website. Cheque whether your Mac's model name appears in this listing:

  • MacBook Air (Retina, thirteen-inch, 2022) – Apple tree hasn't listed this i on its website. However, "a very pocket-size number" of these systems have "an issue" with their logic board and are eligible for free replacement of that board.
  • MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2022) – Some of these MacBooks are eligible for a bombardment replacement. The battery may overheat. Check the MacBook's series number to see if it'south eligible. If you lot have an eligible Mac, Apple tree advises you to stop using it immediately for fire safety reasons.
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2022, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) – Some of these MacBooks sold with 128 GB of 256 GB solid-state drives "have an effect that may consequence in data loss and failure of the bulldoze." Check your MacBook's series number with Apple to see if it's afflicted.
  • MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2022, Iv Thunderbolt iii Ports) – Some of these MacBooks have an issue with their display backlight. The backlight may stop working entirely, or you may see "vertical bright areas along the entire bottom of the screen." Here's what to do if you take this trouble.
  • MacBook Pro (thirteen-­inch, 2022, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports) – Some of these Macs have the same backlight trouble equally to a higher place.
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch) Without Touch on Bar – On some of these MacBooks, the battery may expand due to another component failing. Apple tree says this isn't a safety issue, but will supervene upon the battery free of charge of your device is eligible. Here's how to check your MacBook's series number. Note that this doesn't touch MacBook Pros with bear upon bars.

If You Have a Keyboard Trouble

Apple says that "a minor percentage of the keyboards" in some MacBooks may take problems. If your MacBook's keyboard has characters that "announced unexpectedly," "do not appear," or the keys just feel "mucilaginous" or don't answer consistently, Apple will likely ready information technology for you.

Apple tree provides a list of afflicted MacBooks—new MacBooks with the much-discussed new keyboard design. If you have ane of these MacBooks and your keyboard is working fine, still, Apple tree won't practice anything—it will but fix problems that take already become apparent:

  • MacBook (Retina, 12-­inch, Early on 2022)
  • MacBook (Retina, 12­-inch, Early 2022)
  • MacBook (Retina, 12-­inch, 2022)
  • MacBook Air (Retina, xiii-inch, 2022)
  • MacBook Pro (13­-inch, 2022, Ii Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (xiii-­inch, 2022, Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (13-­inch, 2022, Four Thunderbolt three Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (thirteen-­inch, 2022, 4 Thunderbolt three Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (xv-­inch, 2022)
  • MacBook Pro (15-­inch, 2022)
  • MacBook Pro (thirteen-inch, 2022, 4 Thunderbolt iii Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (15-­inch, 2022)
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2022, Four Thunderbolt three Ports)
  • MacBook Pro (xv-­inch, 2022)

If you lot have a MacBook with this trouble, head to Apple tree'due south website to learn more virtually the keyboard service process.

Plug Adapters and Electric Shocks

Apple has also recalled some older Air-conditioning wall plug adapters—specifically, these models were sold outside the US and within the US as part of the Apple Earth Travel Adapter Kit. They may pause and "create a risk of electrical stupor if exposed metal parts are touched." Older two-prong adapters and three-prong adapters are eligible for a complimentary replacement.