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MacBook Pro 2016 Random Key Repeat Keyboard Issue

Pressing the "enter" key will often behave as pressing it twice (i.e. it will repeat the press once more). This is a very severe issue / problem / bug especially if you're coding, editing text or using Terminal as much as I do.

Below are all the similar threads I could find - None of which seem to provide a solution to this mystery:

2016 MacBook pro 15" defective keyboard

Keyboard, K key sporadically not working, 2016 MBP

A1707 Macbook Pro 15 2016 keyboard randomly repeats the "R" key.

MacBook Pro 2016 keys malfunctioning?

Enter/Return Key Not Working As Expected (Macbook Pro 2016 Touch Screen)

Will this be fixed in a future software update? How can this issue get traction with Apple?

I should add that the issue persists even when going to Settings -> Keyboard and setting Key Repeat to Off

This issue has been picked up by 9to5mac.com: https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/21/macbook-pro-keyboard-problems/

Hi,

I had the same problem (with T Key) (15-inch, 2016, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3), I made an appointment and was told that I had to replace the keyboard (14 days without a computer...) I said I'd delivered at a later date. Two days ago I upgraded to the beta 10.12.4 (16E163f) and the problem has disappeared.

I too have issues with 2 keys, the H key and the Caps lock key. They don't always register and my MacBook Pro is just a day old.  

10.12.4 hasn't unfortunately solved the problem for me. It does seem to happen less, but still occurs. It's really disappointing that such an expensive device has this kind of problems.

Since "upgrading" to 10.12.4 I have noticed that my comma key often repeats now when editing code. Prior to this update i.e. earlier the same day I never experienced this issue.

I guess I am seeking clarity as to whether this is a software issue or a very coincidental hardware issue ... I really don't want to lose the use of the machine while it is being "repaired" if it turns out to be a software issue.

I am using a 15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar bought December 2016

Do Apple ever actually acknowledge issues like this? Do they have an issue tracker?

This is a brief update to my earlier post regarding the problem I was having with the comma key occasionally repeating.

I read on another thread that someone persevered with their keyboard issue for a couple of weeks and found the intermittent repeat issue they had eventually resolved itself. Having read this I thought what would happen if I tried to "exercise" the comma key by pressing it repeatedly in rapid succession.

I opened a text editor that showed the repeating comma issue and then proceeded to type rows of 10 commas - so type 10 commas then new line, 10 commas new line .....

The idea being that any unintended repeats would be easy to see since those lines would be longer than the 10 comma lines thus I could gauge the frequency of the problem.

Sure enough I found that about 15% of the time I would see the repeated comma. However, more surprisingly for me the more lines I typed the less frequent this repeat issue became until I stopped the test (somewhere around line 120).

I have been using my MacBook Pro normally since then and have never noticed a recurrence of this issue...

I have no explanation for this change in behaviour as I know I had not noticed the issue prior to the macOS update and did notice it almost immediately after and yet after my brief experiment the issue seems solved... it is almost as if it "learned" how it should interpret the key... Coincidentally the same update on my iMac had another keyboard side effect in that it forgot I had specified a UK PC keyboard layout for the Ducky One keyboard I have attached and in stead tried to get me to configure a bluetooth keyboard.

Wanted to post this in case this technique worked for anyone else.

I have the same repeat problem with "p" key.  I just replaced keyboard for up arrow not working and within one day I find another problem. 

update - after more use, the repeat problem with the "p" key seems to have gone away.

I have a similar problem, but with an external usb connected apple keyboard. when i type various other keys a "p" is added randomly.  this behaviour is not being exhibited on the macbook's own keyboard.  I have tried connecting the keyboard via various methods eg via my external thunderbolt connected screens (connected to the macbook via a thunderbolt to usb-c adaptor), and directly via a standard usb to usb-c adaptor, same results.  Problem has been intermittent until recently, but now I can't use the external keyboard at all. Very frustrating and poor for a piece of kit that is so expensive.  (macbook pro 12in 3.3gb i7 1TB, with touchbar).

@Univeracity - in your case I would be more suspicious of the external keyboard than of the MacBook Pro. I saw something similar on a battery powered external USB keyboard a couple of years back.

Do you have another device you can test the keyboard on?

its work thank u so much

The caps lock misses key presses since day one. Tab key started double registering after around 2 months. A week ago it was turn of the b (typed that 3 f^*#&G times) missing key presses, and now the left arrow as well. And, as the cherry on the pie, the right tweeter blew up. I travel around and need the machine to work, so I can't afford to remain without laptop for 2 weeks while they (maybe) repair it. What am I supposed to do, uh? Thank you Apple, thank you.

I have a 2016 late MBP 15" which i bought in Feb.

I had the same key repeating issue with "n"key.

So i went to a genius bar.

They originally were going to replace my keybaord but ended up replacing many things...

I hope this solves the problem. But frankly i am disappointed with the quality and for the fact that my new macbook had to go the major replacement. :( ...

最後更新：2017-10-03 12:44:04

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