Cleaning Apple Wireless Keyboard

Thanks to everyone's comments, my keys no long stick and our keyboard looks and feels brand new!

I gently pried off the 8 key from the top. It feels like it's going to snap off and break, but it won't if you only use a little pressure to lift the key up and off. I used 70% rubbing alcohol with a saturated Q-Tip, getting under the plastic piece. The alcohol dries up immediately.

Getting the key back on was a little tricky because you have to lock in the bottom first. I used a keyboard brush around each key to get out any dust or crumbs and then finished up cleaning the entire top of the keyboard with a microfiber towel and rubbing alcohol. Works and looks great! 🙂

This has just happened to me. On Monday, I spilled coffee with milk on my keyboard.

I removed the batteries as fast as I could, and washed the keyboard thoroughly with isopropyl alcohol, pressing the keys to make sure they didn't get sticky. I was extremely careful not to let the liquid flow to the top right corner of the keyboard, which seems to be where the logical board is.

After washing, I let it dry until today, Friday, and I'm writing this post using the now fully recovered keyboard. I can confirm that every single key is working, and none of them are sticky.

If you are in a similar situation, I would recommend doing the same thing. I wouldn't use tap water, though. Distilled water or isopropyl alcohol are more appropriate choices.

I just had this issue of multiple keys sticking as well (someone spilled something - i still don't know what it was - on my keyboard, i didn't realise until a few days later because i was away). I found this thread but was reluctant to try the pulling the keys off and cleaning method and was a bit scared to try the pouring rubbing alcohol over the whole keyboard so i just used my spare keyboard for ages.

Anyway, I finally decided to take the leap with pouring the rubbing alcohol over the whole keyboard and pushing at all the keys to try and get it to get through under all of the keys and it has worked a treat!

I used Isopropyl Alcohol (for Aussies, i bought a bottle of Isocol brand from Priceline), unplugged my keyboard (it's not a wireless one) and over the sink poured the alcohol straight over the keys. I was really careful to drench all of the keys and areas and i pushed at all of the keys throughout the process. I probably only used 1/3 to 1/2 of the bottle in the end. I then let it sit in my dish rack upside down for 2 days, then flipped it over and let it sit for another 2 days to make sure it was completely dry and now it is perfect - i typed this whole message using it with no problems.

Yup Alcohol 70% did the job with my coffee soaked BT keyboard..

I spilled like half a cup, and immediately removed the batteries. I also immediately washed the keyboard with alcohol..(realy soaking it) Alcohol leaves no residue.. so it washes out all the coffee and after a couple of second drying.. .everything works perfectly again.

Couldn't believe it either, but dishwasher method worked for my red wine spill in wireless keyboard - thanks!

I read all of these posts and tried prying keys from the bottom - but found them not very ready to pry off. Then I read a post from Germany which suggested prying them from the top of each key. This I did with a used Starbucks card (yet another way to recycle!) and it popped off much more simply. Then I was able to clean under each sticky key (only 2 - from orange sherbet) and now it works just fine!

Thanks for the alcohol suggestion. I spilled a bit of coffee on mine. Thankfully it was just on the bottom righ but later in the day I noticed the bottom arrow key was sticking.

After finding this article I removed the batteries, dripped a bit of alcohol into it and blew it out. I repeated it about 3 of 4 times and let it dry overnight. The key is back to normal now and I saved myself from having to remove the key.

Where do you buy the alcohol?

How long between the spill and the dishwaher treatment?