How To Clean Macbook Keyboard Without Turning On

There is another thread in here somewhere about this issue and how annoying it can be. With the new MBPs if the machine is shut down but the lid is open one can turn on the machine simply by touching either the touchpad or any key. This can be both convenient and inconvenient, depending upon what one wants to do, and, yes, makes things rather challenging when one wants to wipe down the machine, give it and the screen a cleaning.

ETA: found the thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mbp-2018-turns-on-when-any-key-pressed.2131668/

Off should mean off, not touch any key to boot.

Run the battery down?

So after 2 months with this new machine I wanted to give it a good wipe down. So I powered down and attempted to give it a good cleaning. Every time I touched the trackpad the machine started to power up. I have never had a trackpad turn the machine on before. How are you supposed to clean these damn things if they keep powering on.

Welp, I just went down the rabbit hole of Apple Support pages and learned that, while some people think this is a glitch (and that you're computer is only supposed to do this when asleep rather than turn off), it's an officially documented feature of 2018 Mac notebooks. ****ing hell.

Anyway, I'd give this terminal command a whirl; it says it's to disable auto boot on lid open, but the command doesn't look like it would be limited to lid opening:

Really hope this helps. I cannot imagine Apple would introduce a feature that disruptive with no recourse.

EDIT:

That doesn't fix the touch any key to power on.

Whoops, looks like it's already been suggested.

Back in 2016 when I bought my 2016 12" MacBook, I was not aware that the thing was going to power on when I opened the lid for the first time, and was really startled and kind of annoyed as I really wasn't ready to start setting it up, I just wanted to LOOK at it. The auto-boot at opening the lid is one thing, and once one knows about it and what to expect, not quite as annoying as having it auto-boot when simply touching a key. Thankfully neither the 2016 or 2017 12" MacBooks do the latter, they just auto-boot when lifting the lid. Took me a while to get used to that but by the time I got the 2018 MBP I had become quite accustomed to it. The new "feature" of having the machine auto-boot when simply touching a key or the touchpad is annoying at times. I hadn't thought about locking the screen prior to cleaning the machine.... I am not about to attempt to disable the auto-boot functions, am just learning to live with them. It really would have been nice if Apple had offered us the option of being able to easily disable this (without having to into Terminal) if we wanted to do so.

It seems to me that the best option with the 2016+ with Touch Bar would have been to make the Touch Bar the power button.

How To Clean Macbook Keyboard Without Turning On

Source: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-do-you-clean-a-mbp-without-it-turning-on.2170103/#:~:text=I%20just%20spray%20some%20iKlear,to%20me%20at%20this%20point.

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