MacBook Pro 16" Late 2023 Trackpad Replacement

ID: 167348

Description: Use this guide to replace the trackpad, after...

Steps:

1. Use a 5IP Torx Plus driver to remove the 13 screws securing the trackpad assembly:
2. Ten 5 mm screws
3. Three 5.8 mm screws
4. These screws all look similar—be careful not to mix them up.
5. Adding a little blue threadlocker to the screw threads during reassembly can help prevent the screws from working themselves loose over time.
6. Install the screws loosely at first, and then check the trackpad alignment before tightening them down.

7. Swing the display open slightly, but keep the MacBook upside-down. The trackpad assembly should separate and lay flat on the display.
8. Carefully feed the trackpad's ribbon cable through its slot in the frame.

9. As you remove the trackpad assembly, be very careful not to lose the nine small metal washers resting on the screw posts. (They will fly off and get lost with very little provocation.)
10. Remove the trackpad assembly.