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Hello there y’all! The worst thing happened to me, when I managed to spill some tea into my MacBook Pro 16’‘ (I wrote a song about it, coming soon! I immediately put it into a tent position, and tried to dry it, then drove it to an Apple Store for diagnostics. The diagnostics revealed there is no water damage on the logic board, as I turned it topside up right away, there was some water in the trackpad and keyboard, but nothing too serious, and my computer is running fine. ACCEPT - me turning it into a tent position caused a huge water blotch on the left side of the screen. I found some forums, suggesting to run a python script and warm up the screen, and that it would dry on it’s own. I run folding at home at 100% CPU usage for most of the time now, and I have the screen facing the heater, and the spot is dramatically reduced. However! - It led to a kind of strange effect, as most of the water evaporated, there are no signs of it when looking directly into the screen. When I tilt the screen, or look at it at an angle, there are bright spots left after where the water had been. What do y’all think? Will it blend? (will it dry) or is there any way to fix this? I also found an article here, on how to replace the screen (of a non-retina Pro), with heating the glass, using suction cups to lift it, and change the screen - do you think it would be beneficial (and possible) to do the same here, with me not replacing the screen, but gently blowing air under the glass to dry? Do you have any other suggestions? Pictures attached, the situation now, and the original spill
Sadly, there is nothing you can do here to fix this. By chance did you sign up for AppleCare+ ?? If you had Apple does offer people a reduced price for repairs under it. While not overly hard you will need to replace the entire display assembly as the display in this series is fully sealed! The area where the moisture was is in fact behind the LCD panel within the light dispersion sheets. What you are seeing is what was in the water after it evaporated. Your drink was not pure H2O it was made up of tea, sugar, lemon or milk all of which are solids and even the water used to make the tea have minerals dissolved too! Here’s a view of what makes up a MacBook Pro retina display sheets:
“Diffuser and prism films evenly spread the light to create an even backlight for the display panel. A stationary polarizing sheet then works in conjunction with the liquid crystals to block or allow light for each pixel” Basically, the liquid wicked up between the sheets. Here’s what you’ll need: 16” MacBook Pro Display Assembly - Space Grey, Apple P/N 661-14200 (new)16” MacBook Pro Display Assembly - Silver, Apple P/N 661-14201 (new) Clearly this is not cheap! Maybe you’ll need to live with it for awhile, hoping a cheaper used part becomes available. While this is for the 15” model, Apple really didn’t alter things in the 16” models, here’s the steps to install it: MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2018 Screen Replacement
