Keys are touching the display - M2 MacBook Air

[Zest28]

Anyone got keyboard prints on their display? This is the first laptop I have seen this happen. Quite strange that the keys are touching the display when closed.

 

[Audit13]

The prints on the keyboard are probably the result of oils from your fingers being transferred to the screen.

Clean the keyboard and screen and then check for marks/prints after closing and opening the MacBook.

Some people use a thin keyboard protector to reduce or prevent marks/prints.

 

[posguy99]

Some people use a thin keyboard protector to reduce or prevent marks/prints.

Don't put anything thicker than a sheet of paper in there or you'll have a worse problem than oil transfer.

 

[posguy99]

Anyone got keyboard prints on their display? This is the first laptop I have seen this happen. Quite strange that the keys are touching the display when closed.

They're not, but it doesn't take much flexion of the lid to make them touch.

 

[whitby]

I have not noticed this with my M2 MBA. I am pretty careful to keep my keyboard and screen clean, but I have never seen this. Maybe production tolerances or, as suggested by Audit13, oil build up on the keys.

 

[raythompsontn]

oil build up on the keys

Come listen to my story about a man named Jed
Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was shooting at some food
And up through the ground came a bubbling crude.
Oil that is, Black Gold, Texas Tea.

 

[AudiHeel]

I get that a bit on the middle home keys, not the entire keyboard.