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Water under MacBook Pro Screen, please read
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Hello the exact same thing just happened to me. Rain soaked through backpack and sleeve. My screen looks just like your picture. Now as I use the mac there are horizontal lines developing. I will shut it off but have a deadline! In any case did you find a solution? thanks Dan
Hope this helps someone.
My Mac Pro 2016 model was directly under a drip (lid closed) from a roof leak for maybe an hour or two. It turned on fine but had a couple of rather large moisture blotches on the screen - affecting maybe 30% of the area.
I researched a bit and found that Fresh Step Crystals cat litter is Silica Gel. I went to the store and got an 8lb bag. (I would highly recommend using a new, unopened plastic bag as its vapor absorbing rate will diminish if left unsealed)
I put about 1 lb of it in a white laundered sweatsock (filled to brim and shake a bit to let it stretch and pack). Left enough neck at the top to put a wire tie on it.
I put the sock of litter and the laptop, lid open, turned off, in a hefty trash bag. I twisted the top a bit and secured tightly with a wire tie, after collapsing to get some air out so it. Be careful not to puncture the bag with a sharp edge or corner.
I left it in there 3 days undisturbed except to move it once. It was at normal room temperatures the whole time.
When I took it out, almost all blotches were gone, except for a diagonal (strangely straight) strip about 2" long and 1/2" wide at the top right corner. And part of that blotch was actually multiple lines that looked like interspersed normal areas and residual moisture. Also left were two very small blotches (less than 1/8" and 1/4" at the top). After the three day period, I took it out and used it several hours and it was obvious the larger blob in the corner was shrinking. It was left in its normal environment (except for the roof leak!) and the next morning the 2" long striped blotch was completely gone.
As I type this, only the less than 1/8" and 1/4" spots at the top are still visible. Im hoping they will go away in a few days. I assume the small amount of heat generated in the display while on helps with evaporation.
My Mac Pro 2016 model was directly under a drip (lid closed) from a roof leak for maybe an hour or two. It turned on fine but had a couple of rather large moisture blotches on the screen - affecting maybe 30% of the area.
I researched a bit and found that Fresh Step Crystals cat litter is Silica Gel. I went to the store and got an 8lb bag. (I would highly recommend using a new, unopened plastic bag as its vapor absorbing rate will diminish if left unsealed)
I put about 1 lb of it in a white laundered sweatsock (filled to brim and shake a bit to let it stretch and pack). Left enough neck at the top to put a wire tie on it.
I put the sock of litter and the laptop, lid open, turned off, in a hefty trash bag. I twisted the top a bit and secured tightly with a wire tie, after collapsing to get some air out so it. Be careful not to puncture the bag with a sharp edge or corner.
I left it in there 3 days undisturbed except to move it once. It was at normal room temperatures the whole time.
When I took it out, almost all blotches were gone, except for a diagonal (strangely straight) strip about 2" long and 1/2" wide at the top right corner. And part of that blotch was actually multiple lines that looked like interspersed normal areas and residual moisture. Also left were two very small blotches (less than 1/8" and 1/4" at the top). After the three day period, I took it out and used it several hours and it was obvious the larger blob in the corner was shrinking. It was left in its normal environment (except for the roof leak!) and the next morning the 2" long striped blotch was completely gone.
As I type this, only the less than 1/8" and 1/4" spots at the top are still visible. Im hoping they will go away in a few days. I assume the small amount of heat generated in the display while on helps with evaporation.
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Dude, that's awful!, sorry it happened to you... I would try to very carefully heat the screen with an outside heat source (like a heat gun) with the computer off. But it very well may be that the water has already evaporated and those are just residual spots that won't come off.
Really sorry for your laptop.
Rice requires heat in order to absorb water. The heat is what makes the starch in the rice able to absorb the water.
Anybody that reports “success” by using this so-called “rice method” is merely another example of the “correlation equals causation“ fallacy.
Any positive results noticed would have been the same had rice not been used at all, just due to simple evaporation.
Anybody that reports “success” by using this so-called “rice method” is merely another example of the “correlation equals causation“ fallacy.
Any positive results noticed would have been the same had rice not been used at all, just due to simple evaporation.
How did u fix it please update me I’m having same issue and Apple says it cost around $1000
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Ppl who used the rice technique did it work???
Yeah, umm... We fix this for $150 on all MacBook screens.
I won't get scientific on you, but there's 5 layers of film (diffuser, prism polarizer, etc) under the LCD that are quite fragile so we use a combination of short wave infrared IR dryer and UV light on the front and good ol fashioned ceramic heating plate on the back- WITHOUT TAKING ANYTHING APART.
I won't get scientific on you, but there's 5 layers of film (diffuser, prism polarizer, etc) under the LCD that are quite fragile so we use a combination of short wave infrared IR dryer and UV light on the front and good ol fashioned ceramic heating plate on the back- WITHOUT TAKING ANYTHING APART.
DON'T USE RICE.
I cannot stress this enough.
PUT THE GODDAMN RICE DOWN!
It's nothing but a hoax and I know exactly who started it.
When the rice mixes with water, it melts into THIS
You don't want globs of sperm looking stuff inside your Mac do you? If you're still thinking about putting your device in rice, let me make this loud and clear:
RICE HAS NEVER, FIXED ANY DEVICE, EVER IN HISTORY.
You've all been duped... The so "rice trick" lives up to it's name because this hoax has been TRICKING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE into doing stupid things with their devices and giving Apple more $$$.
Pre-2005, it was common practice for users to disassemble their water damaged laptops, clean out every inch of it and BAKE the logic board in an oven for 30 minutes. This all changed on January 31, 2006, at 9:44AM when a user by the name of bshort unknowingly TROLLED THE WORLD in the first post known to mankind suggesting that user PercussivePaul place his water damaged Apple PowerBook in a bag of rice... Needless to say, this last ditch resort didn't work and Paul had to buy a new laptop... But it ushered in a new era of lazy computer users putting water damaged electronics in bags of rice as a "hail mary".
This reminds me of a scene in Idiocracy where they propose fixing the nuclear reactor by putting "toilet water" on it. IT'S FAKE NEWS. If your iPhone came back on after sitting in a back of rice- it wasn't the bag of rice- it was going to come on anyway.
I don't know who started it, but the rice nonsense has to stop. Either get it professionally cleaned, or use gel silica packets, but not rice.
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the same thing happened to me!! can you please update me on what happened to your macbook? mine still stayed the same for a week and i’m losing hopehello everyoneplease help. i made a mistake. I was cleaning my mac book pro and put rubbing alcohol on top of the mac pro to clean it! , when I switched it on, there were spots and brown blotches on the screen ? I know not to put alcohol directly on the screen, that's why i did clean the top of the mac with alcohol thinking it would not affect the screen but it did ? i used to clean my laptops w alcohol but apparently mac book is so sensitive.
the alcohol dried out i think so i think cooling it w a fan or rice method won't work. Is there anyway i should do that doesn't involve spending a whole lot of money? Thank you so much
I came across this post because I stupidly dumped water into my macbook pro keyboard and the screen wicked water up into it.... I called applecare and they were more concerned with getting the water out of the keyboard and told me to use a hair dryer. My main concern was to get the water out of the screen.... I sat the laptop on it's side open like a book with silica gel packs (the kind that come in a box with a new pair of shoes, tech gear, clothing. The next day the water mark was a LOT smaller. i kept going with the silica gel since thursday and today (sunday evening) it's almost 100% gone. I'm confident it will clear 100%. Moral of the story, don't use open containers for drinks. Adult Sippy Cups are our friends. And don't pick on your SO for hoarding silica gel packs.
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have you tried to use a hair dryer to force the water out?
I there was once a drop of liquid somehow got under my MacBook Air, 2012 11 inch, i was so pissed i use hair blower to blow on it.
but in my case, the water drop is very tiny. Not sure if it's a good idea for you to do it to.
I there was once a drop of liquid somehow got under my MacBook Air, 2012 11 inch, i was so pissed i use hair blower to blow on it.
but in my case, the water drop is very tiny. Not sure if it's a good idea for you to do it to.
Hey! I have a similar problem and I think that your advice is the most useful one!
The only thing that I do not understand, is that how did you sat the laptop and put silica gel packs on your screen? Can you please describe this in other words?
I would really appreciate it.
In my case I was trying to remove Coating Staingate using Listerine, and unfortunately it went through the screen.
I did exactly the same thing on my 2014 MacBook got some in the bottom left and want to remove it.Did you ever sort it?
I had the same issue with my work MacBook Pro and I followed @cararolinson's advice. I kept using it for work during the day and at night I sat the laptop on it's side open like a book but didn't use the silica gel. I was able to remove moisture in 3 days. Thank you!
@gaylemcardinal:
hmm... Your picture doesn't really show any kind of water stain.
Compare to the earlier pictures in this thread, which clearly shows liquid/water behind the glass.
Where, in your picture, do you think is an area showing evidence of water under the glass?
hmm... Your picture doesn't really show any kind of water stain.
Compare to the earlier pictures in this thread, which clearly shows liquid/water behind the glass.
Where, in your picture, do you think is an area showing evidence of water under the glass?
yeah, I don't know why I missed that the filename that gaylemcardinal posted was named "ScreenShot...."
Of course, it's a screenshot...
@gaylemcardinal : You need to take an actual picture of your screen (you know, using a camera or phone), which will show us what your screen really looks like. Even a badly cracked screen will screen shot with no damage visible at all.
(there's no way to show physical damage on a screen shot!)
Of course, it's a screenshot...
@gaylemcardinal : You need to take an actual picture of your screen (you know, using a camera or phone), which will show us what your screen really looks like. Even a badly cracked screen will screen shot with no damage visible at all.
(there's no way to show physical damage on a screen shot!)