Round sticker below new M1 MacBook Air keyboard

[realysmn]

Hi,

I recently got myself a MacBook M1 Air and noticed that there's some circular thing under the keyboard between the shift key and the fn key on the left bottom side. I'm just curious what this is as I'm quite sure my old MacBook didn't have anything like this.. Has somebody seen anything like it? It has a ribbed texture and the color is quite similar to the MacBook's space gray but a bit darker. When I tried touching it with a thin piece of plastic it didn't seem to move.

 

[blueflower]

 

[MultiFinder17]

No idea, but it's part of the plastic layer under the key caps. Given that I had to break out a flashlight to see it on mine, I wouldn't worry about it too much

 

[Apple_Robert]

Were you going go over the new M1 with the Hubble Telescope? Lol I would leave that be and be happy with the new M1.

 

[ghanwani]

Nice picture!

 

[macintoshmac]

Hi,

I recently got myself a MacBook M1 Air and noticed that there's some circular thing under the keyboard between the shift key and the fn key on the left bottom side. I'm just curious what this is as I'm quite sure my old MacBook didn't have anything like this.. Has somebody seen anything like it? It has a ribbed texture and the color is quite similar to the MacBook's space gray but a bit darker. When I tried touching it with a thin piece of plastic it didn't seem to move.

Apple should have hidden that thing deeper inside. Now people will start figuring out what that thing actually is and I am not sure they will like what they discover.

 

[xraydoc]

Shhhh. Don't tell anyone about that! It's how Tim Cook and Apple spies on you. Touching it will disrupt their spy network!

 

[Digital Dude]

It's refreshing to know that someone is more OCD than I am. 🤓

 

[rpmurray]

I'd be more worried about who put those yellow arrows on your keys. I'm pretty sure they're not standard.

 

[triptolemus]

 

[arche3]

The assembly person left a sticker in by mistake? Maybe they damaged a part and the person didn't want to get in trouble so they covered it up with a sticker. Hmm....... the plot thickens