


Others affected by the issue were forced to pay for the issue to be fixed, which was often very expensive because it usually involved replacing the entire display. The company also launched a free repair programme in May 2019, but this only applied to 13in MacBook Pro models released in 2016. iFixit claims these cables were defective and would deteriorate over time.Īpple seemingly fixed the issue by extending the length of the flex cable in the 2018 MacBook Pro.

Repair company iFixit investigated the problem in 2019 and discovered that it occurred to due a flex cable that connects the display to a constoller on the logic board beneath the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar.
