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My MacBook Pro is making a clicking noise randomly when touching any part of the frame

I got this MacBook around two months ago (refurbished) and it started making this clicking noise whenever I touched the outer frame. More recently, it started to happen more often and I was worried something was detached or loose inside of the MacBook. When I went into the Apple Store, they said they couldn’t do anything or run diagnostics because the MacBook was running macOS Sonoma (developer beta). So I could either give them the MacBook so they could ship it out, erase everything (I had a backup and it was under warranty), and then hopefully repair whatever was broken and send it to me after a week (I use it every day and I don’t have another another computer), or walk out of the store with nothing to show for my broken computer. Please advise.


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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Jun 22, 2023 3:17 PM

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Dec 16, 2023 6:49 PM in response to Gzem

Gzem wrote:

I got this MacBook around two months ago (refurbished) and it started making this clicking noise whenever I touched the outer frame. More recently, it started to happen more often and I was worried something was detached or loose inside of the MacBook.

When I went into the Apple Store, they said they couldn’t do anything or run diagnostics because the MacBook was running macOS Sonoma (developer beta

So I could either give them the MacBook so they could ship it out, erase everything (I had a backup and it was under warranty), and then hopefully repair whatever was broken and send it to me after a week (I use it every day and I don’t have another another computer), or walk out of the store with nothing to show for my broken computer. Please advise.

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Why beta...(?)


Uninstall the Beta an take it back— refurbs have the same 1-yr warranty for hardware issues as brand new.

Let Apple tell you what the issue is. The Mac should not be making noise.



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The current stable release of Sonoma including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 14.2

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My MacBook Pro is making a clicking noise randomly when touching any part of the frame

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