So I just completed everything he showed in the video and so far so good. My trackpad had gotten some liquid down in it and kept going haywire, but his video completed in its entirety took care of the trick for me. A couple of things to note: A) I wasn't worried about the warranty since my MBP is from 2010/2011 B) He doesn't show you how to remove the battery, so I watched a similar video that shows how to do that. You WILL need a Y-type screwdriver bit to remove the battery. I ran to Wal-Mart and picked up a $7 screwdriver and 44 bit set that happened to include small enough bits and Y-bits for all the various types of screws you need to do this C)I used the 70% rubbing alcohol, not 91%. Now, after putting everything together, and working at it for 20 min. or so, I haven't noticed my computer going haywire and the mouse wanting to go buggy on me. This was extremely helpful and way cheaper than taking it in somewhere or even buying a new trackpad on eBay.
PEOPLE!! STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM (yourselves): IT'S ALL LIES YOU'VE BEEN TOLD. EX: Apple saying their butterfly keyboard collects dust or crumbs --- but their computers BEFORE the butterfly mechanism were FAULTY garbage too! %$##@@! THE TRACKPADS ARE POORLY MADE IN CHINA, like ALL Apple products are. (Remember iPhone 4-gate, where super-con man Steve Jobs said their customers "don't know how to hold a cell phone!" and then after the uproar continued, he FINALLY ADMITTED they had lied totally [FRAUD, a crime] to cover up Apple's systemic CRIME [fraud, etc].) APPLE CUSTOMERS: "Just cuz POWER CORRUPTS and Apple has the MOST POWER ever, does not mean Apple is corrupt!" AND SO APPLE CONTINUES TO ROB US DAILY cuz the public repeats Apple's own lies! (ex: I've had TWO trackpads fail on Macbook "PRO's, years apart, and NEITHER ever had any food or water near them nor the trackpad.) WAKE UP, zombies. MONEY CREATES CRIME. APPLE must sell more product every 3 months ("quarter") or else they'll lose their jobs. But it's NOT POSSIBLE to sell more iPhones every 3 months forever.... so they did what ALL successful companies do: you START SKIMPING ON PRODUCT QUALITY; worker pay and benefits; etc. APPLE EVEN OUTSOURCES THEIR PROGRAMMING JOBS NOW, to China etc! AND THE MORE CRIMES APPLE GETS CAUGHT IN, the more everyone says they should NOT be held accountable for some of the greatest fraud in world history?
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro 15" and recently had the erratic mouse behavior which is VERY annoying. I watched many different TH-cam videos and read websites on how to fix the issue. None of the suggested fixes from the videos/websites worked on my MBP. I then came across your video. I was hesitant at first to submerge my entire touchpad in a bag of alcohol, but then I thought this really was my last resort for a fix. I was ready to purchase a new touchpad so what could I lose. I left my touchpad in the bag of 91% Isopropyl alcohol (the store didn't carry any % higher than 91%) for about 1 minute and then took it out and left it in front of a fan for a few hours. I then re-installed the trackpad and booted up the machine. I have been running my MBP for about 4 hours now with no issues. I believe your fix has fixed my erratic mouse problem. THANK YOU for making this video!!! I think my issues all started when a droplet of sweat landed on the edge of the touchpad. Great video!
Thank you it work perfectly. I didn't take the touchpad out, I carefully moved the battery without disconnecting it. I used a Q-tip and alcohol around the edges top and bottom of the touchpad. I let it dry for 30 minutes before I powered it back up.
All works now. Was kind of afraid it could destroy the trackpad but I gave it a try anyway before buying new one. But I don't have to replace it. Great advice. Thank you Abraham.
I've never commented on a video, but this method was so easy and worked so well I feel like I have to. Thank you! I dropped a tiny bit of water on my trackpad and it stopped working entirely. I had to do this twice, but after the second time it started working again!
I am so very appreciative Abraham, you are so wonderful to share and I love your humor and matter-of-factness. I thought I would try and just clean the trackpad with the alcohol carefully just on the surface first, without dismounting. IT WORKED!!! BRAVO!!! I think it just needed a cleaning from toast/butter mornings just saying - but yay - without your video - never would have done this with alcohol! Thank you.
Having had this issue on one of my MacBook Pro 13 2011, I followed the advice AND it worked perfectly. Only slight change is that I used a hairdryer to speed up the evaporation of the "rubbing alcohol". Excellent video.
I had trouble with me 13" 2012 Macbook Pro and took it to the Apple store today...... the repair was going to be $280. After watching your video and buying a bottle of 91% alcohol and a small screwdriver in an eyeglass repair kit I spent a total of $3.07 on it. THANK YOU!!!!
PEOPLE!! STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM (yourselves): IT'S ALL LIES YOU'VE BEEN TOLD. EX: Apple saying their butterfly keyboard collects dust or crumbs --- but their computers BEFORE the butterfly mechanism were FAULTY garbage too! %$##@@! THE TRACKPADS ARE POORLY MADE IN CHINA, like ALL Apple products are. (Remember iPhone 4-gate, where super-con man Steve Jobs said their customers "don't know how to hold a cell phone!" and then after the uproar continued, he FINALLY ADMITTED they had lied totally [FRAUD, a crime] to cover up Apple's systemic CRIME [fraud, etc].) APPLE CUSTOMERS: "Just cuz POWER CORRUPTS and Apple has the MOST POWER ever, does not mean Apple is corrupt!" AND SO APPLE CONTINUES TO ROB US DAILY cuz the public repeats Apple's own lies! (ex: I've had TWO trackpads fail on Macbook "PRO's, years apart, and NEITHER ever had any food or water near them nor the trackpad.) WAKE UP, zombies. MONEY CREATES CRIME. APPLE must sell more product every 3 months ("quarter") or else they'll lose their jobs. But it's NOT POSSIBLE to sell more iPhones every 3 months forever.... so they did what ALL successful companies do: you START SKIMPING ON PRODUCT QUALITY; worker pay and benefits; etc. APPLE EVEN OUTSOURCES THEIR PROGRAMMING JOBS NOW, to China etc! AND THE MORE CRIMES APPLE GETS CAUGHT IN, the more everyone says they should NOT be held accountable for some of the greatest fraud in world history? IF WE DON'T ALL RAISE HELL, it's only going to get worse and worse and worse.
My friend, you are truly amazing. I'm forever thankful for this helpful video which made my trackpad work again. I've been trying so many things, none of them worked. Until now. God bless you! Lots of love by Germany.
I normally don't comment on TH-cam videos, but i wanted to THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this. This worked for me... if it helps, i do have a blow dryer available to me and I used that (no heat) to speed up the drying of the touchpad. It works like a charm! Thank you again.
Dude, if you came up with this on your own, you may be a genius. This worked like a champ. Followed the video to a tee. 8 minutes in the 91% alcohol bath. 2 hrs of drying time. And boom! Completely fixed the issue. I didn’t spill anything on the trackpad. It just started wigging-out. I’m guessing a piece of dust or lint or enough dirt and grime from my hands finally worked its way down there. Whatever it was, its gone and my trackpad works like new. I too raise my alcohol filled ziplock baggie to you in honor of your genius. Thank you for sharing on youtube!
Thanks a bunch!!! My cursor was completely still, moving only when I used 3 or 4 fingers. Followed your instructions and it worked! Well, not at first. Don't know why as soon as I reassembled it, it didn't work (same problem as before). I closed the Pro, went to work, grabbed a USB mouse to use it while I ordered a replacement part and then it started working again! I don't see why the USB would fix this, specially considering that I coughed water on the pad last night. Most likely, your thing worked, so you just saved me $60 from getting a replacement one!! As A.G. M. said, "I raise my plastic sandwich bag in tribute to you..." Cheers!!
Thanks for the great post. My MacBook (A1342) works great now, and only had to spend a few bucks on some tools (who the hell uses "Tri-Y" screws??) to get it back in fine shape!
Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. Your fix totally worked. Used it on a computer that was basically unusable because of the track pad going berserk. Followed the video to the letter, it really seemed crazy to me, dunking the track pad it the bag of alcohol like that, but I figured I had nothing to lose. Amazing, track pad is as good as new! Thanks!
to fix mine without even taking a screw out I simply pushed fairly hard on the trackpad for a few seconds in the four corners and the middle. It pushes the battery back down and my trackpad worked immediately afterwards. less of a headache. Thumbs up so everyone can see this easier fix. this is the post that save me and many more macbook pro user
Did exactly what the guy in the video said to do and it worked 100%. Guy at Radio Shack said definitely don't use the 91% IPA, I ignored him, it worked fine. Got to watch those tiny screws carefully. Few of them didn't go back in cleanly though most of them did. Mine is a 2012 MBP so I'm not too worried about voiding warranty. Definitely a reasonable DIY project.
I did as the video recommended and love the results. I also had nothing to lose as the cost of a new pad isn't bad, but with this remedy there is just no need to have to do that.
Worked great for me!!! Much faster than waiting for a new trackpad and much cheaper too! I used 70% alcohol and it worked fine. Waited about an hour for it to dry. My only suggestion is that the trackpad had a bit of wiggle room when I put it back in for my 2012 13 inch Macbook Pro and I had to re-open everything back up to make it straight. So my advice is to put the trackpad back in, loosely tighten the 4 screws that hold the trackpad on, then open up the computer and make sure the trackpad looks good and is centered etc. and adjust if necessary. Then tighten the 4 screws all the way and finish up putting the computer back together.
I was just about to spend 60 bucks for a replacement trackpad as mine was going crazy and the cursor was jumping all over the screen. Decided to try your method first. Worked just as promised. Trackpad functions like new and the mouse is back in the drawer. Thanks!
*THANK. YOU.* After having my battery explode and my hard drive failing, then the trackpad started to go crazy and clicking everywhere. Your trick saved me from buying another trackpad, and it only cost me 90¢! One thing though guys: Watch out not stripping the 4 little tiny pale gray screws on the trackpad (I stripped 2, but still managed to put it out anyway), be REALLY careful!
This video saved me a lot of frustration and most likely $$$ as well!! thanks so much for posting, I had no idea what to do to fix the irrational behaviour of my cursor for quite some time! Life Saver!
Awesome. Great knowledge of the electronics, chemistry (alcohol), and procedure to make this video! Only thing I’ll add is that to remove the battery a correctly sized tri-wing screwdriver is needed, and after removing the battery the trackpad is workable as seen in this video.
I stay in the UK. Got some Surgical Spirit from Boots and went through this. My touch pad is as good as new! Thanks so much! Only thing I would mention is you need to remove the battery before getting to the stage in the video. The battery has a couple of funny Y shaped screws but I managed to get them out with a tiny flat head screwdriver and elbow grease! Great fix thank you! * a few days later the problem came back! Maybe I wasn't thorough enough. Will try again.
This is beautiful!!! Everything tells you, it's wrong to put a piece of electronic in a bag with a liquid substance!!! BUT it freaking works!! My trackpad hasn't worked this good in a long time! Thanks a million!!!
The track pad was working except for clicking. You could scroll and move the cursor just fine. You could feel the track pad click but it did not work. I took it apart like you showed, But I use a paper towel dampened with alcohol and cleaned the edges of the track pad and cleaned the area where the track pad goes on the computer with Q-tips and paper towels. It went from being able to click at all to working quite well! Another thing that causes this sort of problem with the track pad is when the battery goes bad and swells up under the track pad. In that case a new battery will fix it. I would remove the battery and try the track pad and see if that fixes it with no battery installed. The other thing the try is the Torque screw under the batery to adjust how hard it is to click. Thanks for posting this!
I must admit I was sceptical but having tried this yesterday my trackpad is considerably better than it was previously. The cursor was constantly freezing and at othr times had a mind of its own. The Macbook Pro was unusable. The trackpad is now considerably better in operation and I can now use my Macbook Pro. Thank you for sharing this!
This helped me but you should understand you may lose your battery while removing the battery for MacBook Pro retina 15. This is how I did mine. 1) Open the Laptop Bottom, By removing the 10 Screws. 2) Unplug the battery, to remove power on the Board. 3) Pour the alcohol on the trackpad where your fingers move the cursor. "Just little", do not allow the alcohol to move to the keyboard area. 4)Then use your finger to press down the left and right click lightly, to allow the alcohol to go through where the water substance went through. 5) turn it around to let it go round to allow the alchohol to where you can not reach. 6) Open Bottom let it stand by its side on the table and Switch on the fan to dry things Up. For (3hours..) Your laptop trackpad should be fine without removing the battery
Thank you! for your video it help me very much, I was ready to buy a new track pad and tried this and it worked. My track pad didn't work after water spilled on it.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! My son spilled about a tablespoon of water on the trackpad and you know what happened. I could not get my trackpad all the way out because I stripped one tiny screw so I was upset about it but still tried the alcohol with cotton swabs and paper towels. I did that and put it together and it works perfectly. Thank you so very much! I really need my computer for work. You are a life saver!
I ran into the same exact problem. I am in the process of fixing it. Apply all the knowledge I have seen and read from the comments below as well. After further review I have 100% faith this Is legit! I just wanted to say thank you! You don't find many helpful videos like this. I also urge you to do more videos on how to properly clean your computer from all the dust it collects over time. Specifically the underneath components. Again thank you and wish me luck
Worked. Thanks. You need to replace the black tubing and lock it down with the mechanism on there. Easy, but not mentioned in this video. This is my fifth repair or replacement of MacBook stuff, and this video checks out.
This video saved my MBP Mid 2012. I had to get a new set of screwdrivers to remove the battery and I used alcohol 70%. Left it for 1 hour and then assembled everything again and it's now working!
Thank you! Before watching your video I just cleaned the trackpad with Isopropyl Alcohol and there was an improvement for about 5 minutes and then it started behaving erratically again. I will try your procedure and I am sure the problem will be sorted out. I guess you could apply the same procedure to a mobile phone that was dropped in water?
Thank you, thank you so much!!! I was dying without my laptop, because I have online schooling, and your video saved me! FYI I could only find 70% rubbing alcohol and it worked.
I just did this last night on my Macbook Pro and it works great now!!!! Thank you thank you thank you so much for this video!! My touchpad got some water and gunk on it and was making my Macbook unusable. Now it's perfect!! Cost: $0.97.
It worked for me! Had a little bit of water inside the trackpad (bottom left corner). Inside the macbook, found water underneath the battery and the trackpad. Dried it with a paper towel, then I did the ziplock bag trick with 70% isopropyl for the track pad, dried it all about 1 hour with a fan on high speed just to be sure, put it all back together and worked perfectly on the first try...! THANKS
after understanding the problem - thanks to this video - it actually was enough to just take a piece of thin paper and drag it through the small gap between the trackpad and the body a few times ;) thanks man!
This works. I tried taking it all apart and clean WITHOUT using alcohol but the problem was still there. USED ETHYL alcohol and followed the video and the problem is fixed. Thanks very much!!!
I first tried just giving it a wipe down with some 91% alcohol on a clean cloth ....without taking anything apart and it worked a treat, thanks buddy! :)
I've tried pretty much everything else bar replacing the entire trackpad. Although I have had the replacement completed by Apple some time ago the problem is back. It is a 2009 13" MB Pro though, I've ordered all necessary parts so probably next weekend. Can't wait to see if this works, it's driving me nuts trying to use it.
WOW, I used another fix this page to figure out how to take the Macbook Pro apart, then this page gave me the final fix!!! I used 80 percent alcohol, so I let it dry a lot longer. When I reassembled, only half the touchpad responded, so I quickly took the battery out and noticed the touchpad connector was not in place securely. Connected it tightly and _ALL BETTER ! Thanks!
Bro I never comment on anything but I feel inclined to. I was shroomin’ and my dumbass spilled water on my laptop but this technique saved me! I didn’t even have to remove the whole trackpad I just used q-tips and drenched it in alcohol then ran it along the sides and waited for it to dry. You are appreciated sir! Thank you!!
It helped me revive the trackpad on my MacBook Late 2009 that had failed due to a SAKE spill. I used anhydrous ethanol, and alcohol conquers alcohol! Thank you so much!
I spilt some water on my track pad, and it started to go jittery and half of it stopped working fully. I tried drying it with a hair drier etc. it didn't work. Just did what was instructed in the video, word for word, but only had 70% alcohol.To my pleasant surprise, it went back to working perfect! Thank you!
Hi, that procedure can be done with a different trackpad model? The one I got has a little band board with some circuits and transistors on it and two little strips of plastic circuits that go from the band board to the inside. Thank you
So when I put this back together, after replacing trackpad screws I'm finding the black tape piece was not sticking back on. I was thinking that was ok and that the battery would hold it in place but not when I start back up the cursor is stuck in the upper left corner. Any suggestions?
Water works!!! My trackpad was acting erratic for over a week after a coke spill, I couldn't find alcohol so I just washed it with water then used a hair dryer on it. Worked like a charm.
I have a mid 2009 Macbook Pro 13" and tried this on my trackpad. Worked great for the hectic mouse behaviour. Unfortunately it also confirmed that my click didn't work for good. Anyway, thanks for the great tip : it did take me a leap of faith to dip my trackpad in alcohol but turned out working better than before an hour later !
I ordered a new trackpad and decided why not give this a try. What could it hurt? I followed your steps and put everything back together. The trackpad was immediately responsive and no misbehaving yet! Thank you for this post. It it keeps working I will update and reconfirm. Thank you again.
THIS FIX WORKS! a drop of liquid dropped on the side of my trackpad and it started moving on its own and opening apps or moving pages etc. I gave my trackpad a bath in 70% alcohol and cleaned the sides before finally letting it dry for an hour and then assembling it again. It has been a few hours now and still no signs of the bad behavior before. I will update if it occurs again. Thank you for the fix!
worked for me. Trackpad was messing around, klicking anywhere and moving/not moving the cursor. Used pure alcohol, let it sit for 10 mins and dried it with a hairdryer. Thank you!
Thank you, it's really works. I dropped some water drops my trackpad and it went mad. It's run all over the screen and there were dead space line, so now everything is ok.
thanks for sharing , it really work for me i had the same problem with my macbook pro trackpad and i was not able to use , i did the same as u did and its fixed and work fine now
Awesome, and thank you...but I ran into a problem. For some reason, I can't click anymore. Or, depending on how that T-6 "screw" is adjusted, I get a little click if I really try, but not like it was before. It's almost like the battery is pressing on the track pad. I get better (but not the same) motion if the battery is not underneath the trackpad. Any suggestions?
So I just completed everything he showed in the video and so far so good. My trackpad had gotten some liquid down in it and kept going haywire, but his video completed in its entirety took care of the trick for me. A couple of things to note: A) I wasn't worried about the warranty since my MBP is from 2010/2011 B) He doesn't show you how to remove the battery, so I watched a similar video that shows how to do that. You WILL need a Y-type screwdriver bit to remove the battery. I ran to Wal-Mart and picked up a $7 screwdriver and 44 bit set that happened to include small enough bits and Y-bits for all the various types of screws you need to do this C)I used the 70% rubbing alcohol, not 91%. Now, after putting everything together, and working at it for 20 min. or so, I haven't noticed my computer going haywire and the mouse wanting to go buggy on me. This was extremely helpful and way cheaper than taking it in somewhere or even buying a new trackpad on eBay.
Ian Boen update?
PEOPLE!! STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM (yourselves): IT'S ALL LIES YOU'VE BEEN TOLD. EX: Apple saying their butterfly keyboard collects dust or crumbs --- but their computers BEFORE the butterfly mechanism were FAULTY garbage too! %$##@@!
THE TRACKPADS ARE POORLY MADE IN CHINA, like ALL Apple products are. (Remember iPhone 4-gate, where super-con man Steve Jobs said their customers "don't know how to hold a cell phone!" and then after the uproar continued, he FINALLY ADMITTED they had lied totally [FRAUD, a crime] to cover up Apple's systemic CRIME [fraud, etc].)
APPLE CUSTOMERS: "Just cuz POWER CORRUPTS and Apple has the MOST POWER ever, does not mean Apple is corrupt!"
AND SO APPLE CONTINUES TO ROB US DAILY cuz the public repeats Apple's own lies!
(ex: I've had TWO trackpads fail on Macbook "PRO's, years apart, and NEITHER ever had any food
or water near them nor the trackpad.)
WAKE UP, zombies.
MONEY CREATES CRIME.
APPLE must sell more product every 3 months ("quarter") or else they'll lose their jobs. But it's NOT POSSIBLE to sell more iPhones every 3 months forever.... so they did what ALL successful companies do: you START SKIMPING ON PRODUCT QUALITY; worker pay and benefits; etc.
APPLE EVEN OUTSOURCES THEIR PROGRAMMING JOBS NOW, to China etc!
AND THE MORE CRIMES APPLE GETS CAUGHT IN, the more everyone says they should NOT be held accountable for some of the greatest fraud in world history?
Do you have a link to the video showing how to remove the battery?
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro 15" and recently had the erratic mouse behavior which is VERY annoying. I watched many different TH-cam videos and read websites on how to fix the issue. None of the suggested fixes from the videos/websites worked on my MBP. I then came across your video. I was hesitant at first to submerge my entire touchpad in a bag of alcohol, but then I thought this really was my last resort for a fix. I was ready to purchase a new touchpad so what could I lose.
I left my touchpad in the bag of 91% Isopropyl alcohol (the store didn't carry any % higher than 91%) for about 1 minute and then took it out and left it in front of a fan for a few hours. I then re-installed the trackpad and booted up the machine. I have been running my MBP for about 4 hours now with no issues. I believe your fix has fixed my erratic mouse problem. THANK YOU for making this video!!!
I think my issues all started when a droplet of sweat landed on the edge of the touchpad.
Great video!
Thank you it work perfectly. I didn't take the touchpad out, I carefully moved the battery without disconnecting it. I used a Q-tip and alcohol around the edges top and bottom of the touchpad. I let it dry for 30 minutes before I powered it back up.
All works now. Was kind of afraid it could destroy the trackpad but I gave it a try anyway before buying new one. But I don't have to replace it. Great advice. Thank you Abraham.
I've never commented on a video, but this method was so easy and worked so well I feel like I have to. Thank you! I dropped a tiny bit of water on my trackpad and it stopped working entirely. I had to do this twice, but after the second time it started working again!
Thanks for taking the time to video this, I fixed both my husbands and my own trackpad issues following your technique, worked a treat!
I've been having this problem for so long and now it's completely fixed. Thank you!!!
My trackpad was barely working and your video instructions were great and the trackpad now works as good as new! Easy job...THANK YOU!!
This worked for me, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I had spilled coffee on the trackpad and it was gone. Thanks for this helpful video, saved me time and money.
I am so very appreciative Abraham, you are so wonderful to share and I love your humor and matter-of-factness. I thought I would try and just clean the trackpad with the alcohol carefully just on the surface first, without dismounting. IT WORKED!!! BRAVO!!! I think it just needed a cleaning from toast/butter mornings just saying - but yay - without your video - never would have done this with alcohol! Thank you.
Having had this issue on one of my MacBook Pro 13 2011, I followed the advice AND it worked perfectly. Only slight change is that I used a hairdryer to speed up the evaporation of the "rubbing alcohol". Excellent video.
Thank you for this calm and well explained tutorial (other really make you break down...). My trackpad works again perfectly!
I had trouble with me 13" 2012 Macbook Pro and took it to the Apple store today...... the repair was going to be $280. After watching your video and buying a bottle of 91% alcohol and a small screwdriver in an eyeglass repair kit I spent a total of $3.07 on it. THANK YOU!!!!
I needed special tri-wing screwdriver (found on Amazon, the Tekton 2830 kit had what I needed) to remove the battery.
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PEOPLE!! STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM (yourselves): IT'S ALL LIES YOU'VE BEEN TOLD. EX: Apple saying their butterfly keyboard collects dust or crumbs --- but their computers BEFORE the butterfly mechanism were FAULTY garbage too! %$##@@!
THE TRACKPADS ARE POORLY MADE IN CHINA, like ALL Apple products are. (Remember iPhone 4-gate, where super-con man Steve Jobs said their customers "don't know how to hold a cell phone!" and then after the uproar continued, he FINALLY ADMITTED they had lied totally [FRAUD, a crime] to cover up Apple's systemic CRIME [fraud, etc].)
APPLE CUSTOMERS: "Just cuz POWER CORRUPTS and Apple has the MOST POWER ever, does not mean Apple is corrupt!"
AND SO APPLE CONTINUES TO ROB US DAILY cuz the public repeats Apple's own lies!
(ex: I've had TWO trackpads fail on Macbook "PRO's, years apart, and NEITHER ever had any food
or water near them nor the trackpad.)
WAKE UP, zombies.
MONEY CREATES CRIME.
APPLE must sell more product every 3 months ("quarter") or else they'll lose their jobs. But it's NOT POSSIBLE to sell more iPhones every 3 months forever.... so they did what ALL successful companies do: you START SKIMPING ON PRODUCT QUALITY; worker pay and benefits; etc.
APPLE EVEN OUTSOURCES THEIR PROGRAMMING JOBS NOW, to China etc!
AND THE MORE CRIMES APPLE GETS CAUGHT IN, the more everyone says they should NOT be held accountable for some of the greatest fraud in world history?
IF WE DON'T ALL RAISE HELL, it's only going to get worse and worse and worse.
Amazing! worked so well :) just fyi, I dipped a q-tip in alcohol and cleaned the edges of trackpad and now it works like a charm! Thanks Abraham!
Gonna tackle my trackpad when I move home in a few weeks time.
You sir, are a legend!!
Much love xx
My friend, you are truly amazing. I'm forever thankful for this helpful video which made my trackpad work again. I've been trying so many things, none of them worked. Until now. God bless you! Lots of love by Germany.
I normally don't comment on TH-cam videos, but i wanted to THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this. This worked for me... if it helps, i do have a blow dryer available to me and I used that (no heat) to speed up the drying of the touchpad. It works like a charm!
Thank you again.
Dude, if you came up with this on your own, you may be a genius. This worked like a champ. Followed the video to a tee. 8 minutes in the 91% alcohol bath. 2 hrs of drying time. And boom! Completely fixed the issue. I didn’t spill anything on the trackpad. It just started wigging-out. I’m guessing a piece of dust or lint or enough dirt and grime from my hands finally worked its way down there. Whatever it was, its gone and my trackpad works like new. I too raise my alcohol filled ziplock baggie to you in honor of your genius. Thank you for sharing on youtube!
Thanks a bunch!!!
My cursor was completely still, moving only when I used 3 or 4 fingers. Followed your instructions and it worked! Well, not at first. Don't know why as soon as I reassembled it, it didn't work (same problem as before). I closed the Pro, went to work, grabbed a USB mouse to use it while I ordered a replacement part and then it started working again! I don't see why the USB would fix this, specially considering that I coughed water on the pad last night. Most likely, your thing worked, so you just saved me $60 from getting a replacement one!!
As A.G. M. said, "I raise my plastic sandwich bag in tribute to you..."
Cheers!!
Thanks for the great post. My MacBook (A1342) works great now, and only had to spend a few bucks on some tools (who the hell uses "Tri-Y" screws??) to get it back in fine shape!
Absolutely amazing . I was just to but new trackpad when I seen this video. Now 30 min later my MAC is working thank you :)
Wow! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video.
Your fix totally worked. Used it on a computer that was basically unusable because of the track pad going berserk. Followed the video to the letter, it really seemed crazy to me, dunking the track pad it the bag of alcohol like that, but I figured I had nothing to lose. Amazing, track pad is as good as new! Thanks!
to fix mine without even taking a screw out I simply pushed fairly hard
on the trackpad for a few seconds in the four corners and the middle. It
pushes the battery back down and my trackpad worked immediately
afterwards. less of a headache. Thumbs up so everyone can see this
easier fix. this is the post that save me and many more macbook pro user
Did exactly what the guy in the video said to do and it worked 100%. Guy at Radio Shack said definitely don't use the 91% IPA, I ignored him, it worked fine. Got to watch those tiny screws carefully. Few of them didn't go back in cleanly though most of them did. Mine is a 2012 MBP so I'm not too worried about voiding warranty. Definitely a reasonable DIY project.
I did as the video recommended and love the results. I also had nothing to lose as the cost of a new pad isn't bad, but with this remedy there is just no need to have to do that.
Worked great for me!!! Much faster than waiting for a new trackpad and much cheaper too! I used 70% alcohol and it worked fine. Waited about an hour for it to dry.
My only suggestion is that the trackpad had a bit of wiggle room when I put it back in for my 2012 13 inch Macbook Pro and I had to re-open everything back up to make it straight. So my advice is to put the trackpad back in, loosely tighten the 4 screws that hold the trackpad on, then open up the computer and make sure the trackpad looks good and is centered etc. and adjust if necessary. Then tighten the 4 screws all the way and finish up putting the computer back together.
GUYS I STG I TRIED EVERYTHING TO FIX IT AND THIS ACTUALLY FIXED MY TRACKPAD OMFG U JUST SAVED ME SO MUCH MONEY THANK U SO MUCHHH
I was just about to spend 60 bucks for a replacement trackpad as mine was going crazy and the cursor was jumping all over the screen. Decided to try your method first. Worked just as promised. Trackpad functions like new and the mouse is back in the drawer. Thanks!
I was able to like this video after fixing my touchpad! Thank you!
*THANK. YOU.*
After having my battery explode and my hard drive failing, then the trackpad started to go crazy and clicking everywhere. Your trick saved me from buying another trackpad, and it only cost me 90¢!
One thing though guys: Watch out not stripping the 4 little tiny pale gray screws on the trackpad (I stripped 2, but still managed to put it out anyway), be REALLY careful!
This video saved me a lot of frustration and most likely $$$ as well!! thanks so much for posting, I had no idea what to do to fix the irrational behaviour of my cursor for quite some time! Life Saver!
Awesome. Great knowledge of the electronics, chemistry (alcohol), and procedure to make this video! Only thing I’ll add is that to remove the battery a correctly sized tri-wing screwdriver is needed, and after removing the battery the trackpad is workable as seen in this video.
Epic video. Been repairing these for sometimes had not experienced it. Thank you man for sharing with the world.
Thank you so much for the solution.Trackpad was unusable before and had to use mouse everytime... Now thanks to you I am enjoying my laptop again.
I stay in the UK. Got some Surgical Spirit from Boots and went through this. My touch pad is as good as new! Thanks so much! Only thing I would mention is you need to remove the battery before getting to the stage in the video. The battery has a couple of funny Y shaped screws but I managed to get them out with a tiny flat head screwdriver and elbow grease! Great fix thank you!
* a few days later the problem came back! Maybe I wasn't thorough enough. Will try again.
This is beautiful!!!
Everything tells you, it's wrong to put a piece of electronic in a bag with a liquid substance!!! BUT it freaking works!!
My trackpad hasn't worked this good in a long time! Thanks a million!!!
The track pad was working except for clicking. You could scroll and move the cursor just fine. You could feel the track pad click but it did not work. I took it apart like you showed, But I use a paper towel dampened with alcohol and cleaned the edges of the track pad and cleaned the area where the track pad goes on the computer with Q-tips and paper towels. It went from being able to click at all to working quite well! Another thing that causes this sort of problem with the track pad is when the battery goes bad and swells up under the track pad. In that case a new battery will fix it. I would remove the battery and try the track pad and see if that fixes it with no battery installed. The other thing the try is the Torque screw under the batery to adjust how hard it is to click.
Thanks for posting this!
I must admit I was sceptical but having tried this yesterday my trackpad is considerably better than it was previously. The cursor was constantly freezing and at othr times had a mind of its own. The Macbook Pro was unusable. The trackpad is now considerably better in operation and I can now use my Macbook Pro. Thank you for sharing this!
This helped me but you should understand you may lose your battery while removing the battery for MacBook Pro retina 15. This is how I did mine.
1) Open the Laptop Bottom, By removing the 10 Screws.
2) Unplug the battery, to remove power on the Board.
3) Pour the alcohol on the trackpad where your fingers move the cursor. "Just little", do not allow the alcohol to move to the keyboard area.
4)Then use your finger to press down the left and right click lightly, to allow the alcohol to go through where the water substance went through.
5) turn it around to let it go round to allow the alchohol to where you can not reach.
6) Open Bottom let it stand by its side on the table and Switch on the fan to dry things Up. For (3hours..)
Your laptop trackpad should be fine without removing the battery
Thanks for the tip! I only had to alcohol the edges of the touchpad real good and I am back in business
Appreciate the video, was having this issue today and it worked wonderfully only took about 7 mins
Thank you! for your video it help me very much, I was ready to buy a new track pad and tried this and it worked. My track pad didn't work after water spilled on it.
Tried this option. First time didn't work. But tried again, and also cleaned the ribbon connectors, and it worked. Thank you for saving me $$$
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! My son spilled about a tablespoon of water on the trackpad and you know what happened. I could not get my trackpad all the way out because I stripped one tiny screw so I was upset about it but still tried the alcohol with cotton swabs and paper towels. I did that and put it together and it works perfectly. Thank you so very much! I really need my computer for work. You are a life saver!
I ran into the same exact problem. I am in the process of fixing it. Apply all the knowledge I have seen and read from the comments below as well. After further review I have 100% faith this Is legit!
I just wanted to say thank you! You don't find many helpful videos like this. I also urge you to do more videos on how to properly clean your computer from all the dust it collects over time. Specifically the underneath components.
Again thank you and wish me luck
Worked. Thanks. You need to replace the black tubing and lock it down with the mechanism on there. Easy, but not mentioned in this video. This is my fifth repair or replacement of MacBook stuff, and this video checks out.
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed to do to fix my frustrations with my MacBook!
This video saved my MBP Mid 2012. I had to get a new set of screwdrivers to remove the battery and I used alcohol 70%. Left it for 1 hour and then assembled everything again and it's now working!
This worked for me. Did it on a Macbook Air but basically the procedure was the same. But it works like normal again. Thank you so much for the guide!
Great tutorial, very helpful for new-spillers! Helped me out a lot! Liked.
omg thank you so much. it worked so well!!!
the trackpad was driving me crazy before!!! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you!
Before watching your video I just cleaned the trackpad with Isopropyl Alcohol and there was an improvement for about 5 minutes and then it started behaving erratically again. I will try your procedure and I am sure the problem will be sorted out. I guess you could apply the same procedure to a mobile phone that was dropped in water?
Thank you, thank you so much!!! I was dying without my laptop, because I have online schooling, and your video saved me! FYI I could only find 70% rubbing alcohol and it worked.
I just did this last night on my Macbook Pro and it works great now!!!! Thank you thank you thank you so much for this video!! My touchpad got some water and gunk on it and was making my Macbook unusable. Now it's perfect!! Cost: $0.97.
I have just fixed mine using this technique.. i admit was hesitant to try it but it really did fix my trackpad.. ty for this sir..👍👍👏👏
This is a great help and advice, i didn't know you could do the bag tip, so thanks for putting this out there.
Cant thank you enough, I live in a remote place and this just saved me a ton of stress and problems.
It worked for me! Had a little bit of water inside the trackpad (bottom left corner). Inside the macbook, found water underneath the battery and the trackpad. Dried it with a paper towel, then I did the ziplock bag trick with 70% isopropyl for the track pad, dried it all about 1 hour with a fan on high speed just to be sure, put it all back together and worked perfectly on the first try...! THANKS
after understanding the problem - thanks to this video - it actually was enough to just take a piece of thin paper and drag it through the small gap between the trackpad and the body a few times ;) thanks man!
This video literally saved my hundreds of dollars. Thanks man for posting this video. Very useful. 🙏🏽
This works. I tried taking it all apart and clean WITHOUT using alcohol but the problem was still there. USED ETHYL alcohol and followed the video and the problem is fixed. Thanks very much!!!
Great solution! Thanks for the great video. I only soaked the touchpad for 5 minutes as I knew it was a few drops of liquid that caused the issue.
I first tried just giving it a wipe down with some 91% alcohol on a clean cloth ....without taking anything apart and it worked a treat, thanks buddy! :)
I've tried pretty much everything else bar replacing the entire trackpad. Although I have had the replacement completed by Apple some time ago the problem is back. It is a 2009 13" MB Pro though, I've ordered all necessary parts so probably next weekend. Can't wait to see if this works, it's driving me nuts trying to use it.
Thanks bro, very helpful vid. Question? How do I fix noisy cd drive that does not load discs? It makes clicking noises on bootup.
Your little trick worked like a charm! Thanks for the savings of money and headache I appreciate you!
YAY thank you. You saved me $140. Works like a charm!! I used 50% rubbing alcohol
worked wonderfully for me - thanks so much for the vid!
THIS WORKED!! AMAZING!! Thanks for sharing!! TrackPad as good as new!!!
WOW, I used another fix this page to figure out how to take the Macbook Pro apart, then this page gave me the final fix!!! I used 80 percent alcohol, so I let it dry a lot longer. When I reassembled, only half the touchpad responded, so I quickly took the battery out and noticed the touchpad connector was not in place securely. Connected it tightly and _ALL BETTER ! Thanks!
Thanks so much for this video! So far this has helped with fixing my MacBook Pro!
thanks guy, this worked perfectly and has given me back my sanity, lol. :)
Thank you so much for sharing this! My trackpad is working again! :D
Bro I never comment on anything but I feel inclined to. I was shroomin’ and my dumbass spilled water on my laptop but this technique saved me! I didn’t even have to remove the whole trackpad I just used q-tips and drenched it in alcohol then ran it along the sides and waited for it to dry. You are appreciated sir! Thank you!!
It helped me revive the trackpad on my MacBook Late 2009 that had failed due to a SAKE spill.
I used anhydrous ethanol, and alcohol conquers alcohol!
Thank you so much!
I spilt some water on my track pad, and it started to go jittery and half of it stopped working fully. I tried drying it with a hair drier etc. it didn't work.
Just did what was instructed in the video, word for word, but only had 70% alcohol.To my pleasant surprise, it went back to working perfect! Thank you!
Hi, that procedure can be done with a different trackpad model? The one I got has a little band board with some circuits and transistors on it and two little strips of plastic circuits that go from the band board to the inside. Thank you
So when I put this back together, after replacing trackpad screws I'm finding the black tape piece was not sticking back on. I was thinking that was ok and that the battery would hold it in place but not when I start back up the cursor is stuck in the upper left corner. Any suggestions?
Did this today! And it worked 100%. Awesome, and thank you!
Thanks for this video. It saves me from a 6-month long trackpad issue.
Bro you are the best! I thought my macbook was destroyed but i tried this and it worked flawlessly A++++++++ :)
thank you so much , did exactly what you showed and it worked , your a champ i couldnt afford to take it in to be repaired
Water works!!! My trackpad was acting erratic for over a week after a coke spill, I couldn't find alcohol so I just washed it with water then used a hair dryer on it. Worked like a charm.
I have a mid 2009 Macbook Pro 13" and tried this on my trackpad. Worked great for the hectic mouse behaviour. Unfortunately it also confirmed that my click didn't work for good. Anyway, thanks for the great tip : it did take me a leap of faith to dip my trackpad in alcohol but turned out working better than before an hour later !
I ordered a new trackpad and decided why not give this a try. What could it hurt? I followed your steps and put everything back together. The trackpad was immediately responsive and no misbehaving yet! Thank you for this post. It it keeps working I will update and reconfirm. Thank you again.
THIS FIX WORKS!
a drop of liquid dropped on the side of my trackpad and it started moving on its own and opening apps or moving pages etc.
I gave my trackpad a bath in 70% alcohol and cleaned the sides before finally letting it dry for an hour and then assembling it again. It has been a few hours now and still no signs of the bad behavior before. I will update if it occurs again.
Thank you for the fix!
This fixed my trackpad!! Thanks for the video!
This worked like a charm. Used 70% alcohol because it's what I had. I tried every other troubleshooting tip and nothing else fixed it. Thanks!
worked for me. Trackpad was messing around, klicking anywhere and moving/not moving the cursor. Used pure alcohol, let it sit for 10 mins and dried it with a hairdryer. Thank you!
Thank you, it's really works. I dropped some water drops my trackpad and it went mad. It's run all over the screen and there were dead space line, so now everything is ok.
Thanks man this video has helped me today, i used surgical spirit cause i didn't have access to alcohol.... Much love from 🇰🇪
Did this today! And it worked! You just saved me a lot of bucks. Thank You... :)
Thank you i fixed my macbookpro which behaving crazy after coffee spill over.now its fixed. great video
I had my doubts, but it worked. Thank you!
PER-FECT!
Thank you so much for your preeeecccious help.
I tried with my a1502 MacBook Pro 13 Retina,, it's working with your trick.. thanks buddy ❤️❤️
thanks for sharing , it really work for me
i had the same problem with my macbook pro trackpad and i was not able to use ,
i did the same as u did and its fixed and work fine now
This video saved my life 1 year ago #neverforget
Jesus did the same for me
saved mine just now
Awesome, and thank you...but I ran into a problem. For some reason, I can't click anymore. Or, depending on how that T-6 "screw" is adjusted, I get a little click if I really try, but not like it was before. It's almost like the battery is pressing on the track pad. I get better (but not the same) motion if the battery is not underneath the trackpad. Any suggestions?
WORKED AWESOME!!! Thanks for the info...