“We bought a M1 Macbook Air 4 months ago. Sitting on my desk – came home opened it and it was cracked.”

The laptop was sitting on my desk and when I opened it was broken, and showing bars.” It is absurd as I have nothing like it on my desk and the computer was properly closed as usual and didn’t move the whole night.” I contacted an authorized Apple center which told me Apple warranty would not cover it as it is a contact point crack as if I have left something the size of a rice berry between the screen and the keyboard. I left my computer on the top of my desk during the night and the next day I opened it the screen had 2 small cracks on the right which damaged the functioning of the screen. “I bought a MacBook Air M1 6 months ago and the screen cracked for no apparent reason. There are threads on both Apple Support Communities and Reddit, with users either reporting that the cracks occurred when they opened or closed the lid, or that they were simply present next time they came to use the machine. I told them that I had done nothing to damage the screen but their response was that their technicians would decide if I had damaged it and would, in that case, lose my money. I contacted Apple and was forced to pay £570 upfront in order for them to repair it. Yesterday morning I opened it up to discover cracks in the screen. In some cases, Apple has repaired or replaced the machines free of charge, while most other users have been charged …ĩto5Mac reader Ian Probert said he experienced the problem, and is waiting to hear whether he will be charged. There have been multiple reports of M1 MacBook screen cracks occurring during normal usage of the machines, with both the M1 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro affected.

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