MBP 2015 battery replacement question

[TiggrToo]

It was my own fault: I'd left my 2015 plugged in and running constantly for 2 years plus.

Well, chemicals did what what chemicals are wont to do over time, and my Pro is getting a little bit of the old Middle-aged spread on its bottom.

Right now is only noticeable when it's on a hard surface, but now it's started to bulge, it'll only get worse, this I know and accept.

Luckily it's but $129 to get my beloved 2015 back into fighting shape, and since it's got several more years of life left in it yet, I've zero issues trotting it along to one of my local service centers in the next few weeks.

This all said, does anyone know if this will require the disk to be wiped? I'm rather hoping it doesn't (as in looking at doing it face 2 face as opposed handing it over to the oh-so-careful hands of Fed-Ex etc.)

I've got backups from a while back and the day to day stuff's already on 2 separate cloud services. That said, it would be nice if it came back to me with the OS on roughly the same state it's in today.

 

[Fishrrman]

I don't see where just changing the battery will impact the contents of the hard drive.

But have a good backup, just in case.

 

[pshufd]

It was my own fault: I'd left my 2015 plugged in and running constantly for 2 years plus.

Well, chemicals did what what chemicals are wont to do over time, and my Pro is getting a little bit of the old Middle-aged spread on its bottom.

Right now is only noticeable when it's on a hard surface, but now it's started to bulge, it'll only get worse, this I know and accept.

Luckily it's but $129 to get my beloved 2015 back into fighting shape, and since it's got several more years of life left in it yet, I've zero issues trotting it along to one of my local service centers in the next few weeks.

This all said, does anyone know if this will require the disk to be wiped? I'm rather hoping it doesn't (as in looking at doing it face 2 face as opposed handing it over to the oh-so-careful hands of Fed-Ex etc.)

I've got backups from a while back and the day to day stuff's already on 2 separate cloud services. That said, it would be nice if it came back to me with the OS on roughly the same state it's in today.

My 2015 is fine and it's always plugged in. It's hooked up to a Time Machine disk 95% of the time (the other 5% is to backup my other MacBook Pro) to the same disk. I have a Time Machine disk in the office as well and back them up there too but I haven't had my computers in the office for two months.

Is your local Apple Store open for doing battery replacements?

 

[TiggrToo]

My 2015 is fine and it's always plugged in. It's hooked up to a Time Machine disk 95% of the time (the other 5% is to backup my other MacBook Pro) to the same disk. I have a Time Machine disk in the office as well and back them up there too but I haven't had my computers in the office for two months.

Is your local Apple Store open for doing battery replacements?

Apple? No, but there are at least 3 authorized service centers around here.

 

[glintoz]

It was my own fault: I'd left my 2015 plugged in and running constantly for 2 years plus.

Well, chemicals did what what chemicals are wont to do over time, and my Pro is getting a little bit of the old Middle-aged spread on its bottom.

Right now is only noticeable when it's on a hard surface, but now it's started to bulge, it'll only get worse, this I know and accept.

Luckily it's but $129 to get my beloved 2015 back into fighting shape, and since it's got several more years of life left in it yet, I've zero issues trotting it along to one of my local service centers in the next few weeks.

This all said, does anyone know if this will require the disk to be wiped? I'm rather hoping it doesn't (as in looking at doing it face 2 face as opposed handing it over to the oh-so-careful hands of Fed-Ex etc.)

I've got backups from a while back and the day to day stuff's already on 2 separate cloud services. That said, it would be nice if it came back to me with the OS on roughly the same state it's in today.

Had mine done a while ago and it came back with all data intact.

But, make sure you have a current backup just in case.

 

[Hawaiian Starman]

Replacing the battery in the 2015 MBP is not complicated. Plenty of on-line self-help vids. The replacement does not compromise HD data.