repair

Hello everyone, I recently dropped my charger on the lid of my MacBook Pro, and of course the metal electrical prongs hit my laptop and left a nice little deep scratch. Does anyone have any products or solutions to fill this scratch in to fix it so it’s not noticeable? See the attached...

There are some components on my iMac G3's power supply board that are so corroded as to be unidentifiable. I am hoping someone with a matching intact PSU can post some pics of theirs. The specific PSU board I have is LG P/N 6870T194A20. The Apple part number is 820-1143, and the Apple EEE code...

Hi All I hope you are well I have an A1534 12 Inch 2015 MacBook. I have owned it for some time and whilst its a controversial MacBook (as in some people see it as a waste), I absolutely love it! Recently a couple of the keys have died on it, So I bought a replacement keyboard flex cable (even...

I noticed that I haven't printed all of my old Messages to pdf's. Turned on my old mini2012, which has been in a box for 2 years. Didn't boot up, didn't see the ssd side of the fusion drive. Macos in that fusion drive was 10.12.6. I took ssd+hdd out from my mini2012. Plugged them to my...

Recently i have starting looking into a potential issue about Apple's software design. I'm talking about iCloud's activation lock and how it affects Tons of usable machines! A refurbisher (@RDKLInc on twitter) has been sharing stories of numerous locked T2 enabled Intel Macs, and now even M1...

Did a search and didn't see this posted anywhere. Sharing my experience as it may be helpful for someone. Took my wife's iPhone 14 Pro in to get the back glass fixed. One of our kids had dropped it and shattered the back glass. Fortunately, we have AppleCare on her phone. It was in a case but a...

Dear MacRumors Community, My 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro (A1708)'s iSight Webcam is broken after the diagnosis by Apple tech support today. I searched online, Amazon doesn't sell it and the one sold on eBay doesn't look like it is the original manufacturer selling it. The repair by Apple is $800...

I am attempting to repair my wife's Macbook Pro (A2251). I know that the RAM is bad and I was initially just getting ready to remove and reball the BGA chips. Upon initial inspection I realized that it looked like there were two resistors missing on the logic board (highlighted below). I...

I’ve been importing thousands of photos and videos into a new Photos library on my HDD. Due to slowness, I decided to move the library to a SSD. I stopped the transfer of any media, then attempted to eject the HDD. It wouldn’t eject, so I force ejected it through macOS. I plugged it back in and...

Hey, So as per the title I'm repairing my HomePod to replace the solenoid that's gone on the amp board. But I've encountered my first issue, the ribbon cable that runs from the inside bottom of the HomePod to the top, has a tear in it. I must have caused this somehow. My question is what do I...

I‘ve now done a few battery replacements for myself and for family. First, I did my iPhone XS, which was at 81% battery health. Battery life seemed unchanged from the 81% BH original battery, and then I had to deal with the warning messages about the third-party battery. This last week I put...

I have a iPad Air 5th gen 256 cellular and it has liquid damage would Apple replace it or repair it and I don’t have Apple unfortunately and I’m willing to pay what ever I have to without buying a whole new one

Hi all! I updated my iMac from Sierra to Catalina and then wanted to update it to Monterey. It got stuck at the point where it cannot select a startup disc. I somehow got pass that message, but then the update failed and how when I start it there is a flashing question mark and the text...

I recently got a 2011 iMac 27" from a friend and I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it. When I turn it on, I hear a chime and then the apple logo shows up with the progress bar (the background is light grey, looks washed out), then after a couple of seconds the apple logo and progress...

Hi. Hope this is the correct forum. My iPhone X fell today. The display is (almost) dead (some green display upper right side still visisble). I can enter the password blindly, which I used to access the iPhone X via MacBook and make a backup. Haptics work as well. Basically it seems to be...

Hi, Unfortunately I recently spilled water on my MacBook Pro 2019. It has the following specs: https://business.currys.co.uk/catalogue/computing/laptops/macbook/apple-macbook-pro-16-2019-intel-core-i7-512-gb-space-grey/N280920W . I only spilled a few drops of water on it, landing around the...

My mom called me today (hysteric) and send me these pictures from her MBA M1 (bought it +1 year ago), it happened suddenly. Any suggestions? She's living in a country that sells MacBooks (Costco, Sams, BestBuy) but there's no Apple Store nor authorized service providers (I searched thru Apple...

Recently got this LED Display on eBay and when it arrived I quickly noticed it had these vertical lines running through it. They are pretty much on the entire display. They are almost invisible on a white screen but when it is dark they become very noticeable. I cannot find pretty much anything...

I have been asked to replace the display of a cracked A2289. The MacBook was tested favorably with an external display Amazon sells THE LCD display "assembly" (display in metal ENCLOSURE) https://www.amazon.com/s?k=a2289+screen+replacement eBay sells the "display only" (WITHOUT metal...

Hi All! Long time lurker, first time poster here. I have a mid 2014 13" MBP that I'm considering replacing the battery of, and wondered over the course of planning this, whether or not I would be able to fix a screen issue that I've lived with for the past ~5 years, shown below ! Lol so...