MacBook & Mac Repair in London

Screen replacements

Retina displays for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac. We handle the delicate process carefully to avoid damage.

Battery replacements

Swollen or depleted batteries in MacBooks. We use quality cells and calibrate properly after installation.

Keyboard repairs

Including the notorious butterfly keyboards. We can replace individual keys or entire top cases.

Logic board repairs

Component-level repairs for power issues, no display, and other board-level faults.

SSD upgrades

Upgrade older Macs with fast NVMe storage for dramatically improved performance.

Thermal throttling and constant fan noise

A Pro under sustained load — video, Xcode, large photo libraries — depends on clear vents and thermal compound that has not dried out. Once it has, the machine slows down under exactly the workload it was bought for, and the fans never settle.

Battery swelling

A swollen cell presses upwards against the trackpad, so the first sign is often a trackpad that clicks oddly or stops clicking altogether, or a case that no longer sits flat on a desk. This is a stop-using-it fault rather than a live-with-it one and wants replacing promptly.

Display cable and backlight failures

On 2016 and 2017 13-inch models a thin display flex cable passes over the hinge and wears with opening and closing. It shows up as uneven bright bands along the bottom of the screen, or a backlight that cuts out past a certain opening angle.

Discrete graphics faults

Pros fitted with a separate graphics chip can develop artefacts, distorted output, a black screen with the machine still running, or crashes under graphics load. These are board-level faults — there is no graphics card to swap in a MacBook.

Keyboard and top case work

Butterfly keyboards from the 2016 to 2019 era fail on individual keys and are famously sensitive to a single crumb. The later scissor keyboards behave far better, but any Pro keyboard takes a spill badly because of what sits directly beneath it.

USB-C and Thunderbolt port wear

When the charger and every accessory share the same handful of ports, wear and knocks accumulate. A machine that only charges when the cable is held at a certain angle is a port repair, not a cable to replace.

Keyboard faults

The 2018 and 2019 Airs used the butterfly mechanism and inherited its problems — repeating keys, dead keys, keys that need a deliberate hit. Airs from 2020 onwards use a much more reliable scissor keyboard, though any Air takes a liquid spill straight through it.

Battery life falling off a cliff

Airs get carried everywhere and cycled hard. Once the cycle count catches up, runtime tends to collapse quickly rather than taper. A replacement battery is usually the cheapest way to make an otherwise healthy Air useful again.

Storage that is slow because it is full

A 128GB Air running macOS, iCloud sync and a photo library sits permanently near capacity, and a nearly full drive is a slow drive. On Airs from roughly 2013 to 2017 the blade SSD can be replaced with something larger and faster. From 2018 onwards the storage is soldered, so the answer is housekeeping and external storage instead.

M-series Airs have no fan at all

The M1, M2 and later Airs are entirely fanless, so noise from one is never a fan fault — it is coming from somewhere else, or the machine is not an Air. What they do instead is throttle quietly during long sustained work, which is designed behaviour rather than a fault.

Hinges, lids and cracked panels

Thin lids and full bags do not mix. Cracked panels, pressure marks across the display and lids closed onto a pen or a cable are routine Air repairs, and the panel is usually replaceable without touching anything else.

Liquid damage reaches the board fast

There is very little space between the keyboard and the logic board on an Air, so a spill arrives at the important parts almost immediately. How quickly the machine is powered down and brought in matters far more than how much went in.