Battery replacement options during quarantine

[satinsilverem2]

My 2016 tbMBP is needing a new battery. I’m at 206 cycles and 59 percent health. If I had the option I would take the machine into the Apple store and have the keyboard recall done (includes a new battery) but that’s not an option right now. I just need the battery replaced and do not know if Apple is still accepting mail in repairs. Has anyone had anything done during the lockdowns?

 

[Weaselboy]

do not know if Apple is still accepting mail in repairs

They are... just call support and open a ticket. They will send you a prepaid box to ship the MBP to them for repair then they will send it back afterwards.

I saw a couple members in another thread do this and it took about a week total.

 

[Rizvi1]

Do they have any surcharge for the mail in service? when I tried to get them to do it in store back in late December, it was $199 for the battery replacement on my mid-2014 MacBook Pro.

Just a note for anyone looking into this - make sure you do the battery from Apple. I did the battery with my friend and bought it 3rd party off ebay and had issues a year+ later. But because I had did it on my own, Apple wouldn't fix the battery. I ended up having to go to Experimax to do it. Luckily it was around the same price, but I'd have been more comfortable with apple doing it.

 

[Weaselboy]

Do they have any surcharge for the mail in service?

No charge other than the $199.