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Spilled matcha on my trackpad, what do i do? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by AssumptionSea695@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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Hi! So I just spilled matcha on my mac, only in the trackpad part. Here’s what I did right after the incident:

Wiped of the liquid in the surface
Made sure absorb the liquid in the crevices thru a qtip

There’s also another thing I did, similar to when my phone got drenched in the water last summer, I sucked the water that might have gotten inside my phone thru the speakers. For my mac, I did the same by sucking in the crevices which led to bits of liquids coming out. I did this until liquid came out.

Right now, my trackpad works fine. Still, I feel anxious.

Is there anything more I can do?

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[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Would leave the laptop off for a day or two (completely off, i.e. shut down) in case there are any residual liquids inside of it. Other than that, not much you can/should do! In the future (if you didn’t do this - I wasn’t sure because you didn’t mention it) - if you spill something on anything electronic, as soon as you can, turn it all of the way off. The more you try to use it (inadvertently or otherwise) while it has liquid on it, the more likely you will cause irreversible damage to it!