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The issue of electronic devices getting overheated and emitting smoke could cause safety hazard on-board.

This replacement will be done free of cost but does not include paid service for any other issue. If Apple suggests that your machine is part of the recall, you should stop using it immediately and take it to an Apple authorized service centre to have the battery replaced.

You can find the serial number of your MacBook Pro listed in the ‘About This Mac’ page. If it does say the above, you need to enter your machine’s serial number on Apple’s support page. If it says ‘MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)’, then you move on to the next step. Now, it remains to be seen how Apple responds to this matter.What can you do? To find out if your 15-inch MacBook Pro is affected, first select ‘About This Mac’ from the Apple menu in the top-left corner of your screen.

But while it might be easy to say that the owner should’ve just returned it before, the Reddit user stated that his laptop had been “already been serviced for this issue,” when he had submitted its model number into the battery recall program form. Meaning, the unlucky incident that took place recently was likely due to user owning this faulty version of the MacBook Pro. This even caused damage to property and got the model labelled as a fire hazard. The recall arrived as a number of MacBook Pro units started facing incidents such as swelling and exploding. Back in 2015, Apple had issued a large recall for its 15 inch MacBook Pro laptops that were sold between September 2015 and February 2016. The Reddit user can be considered lucky as he noticed the smoke, but the toxic fumes and fire could have been fatal. This prompted him to remove the notebook from under the bed, which even caused the owner’s carpet to be burned. But then, the owner was woken up by the fumes caused by the melting plastic case of the laptop and likely due to the burning lithium ion battery as well. While the users only faced minor injuries, the potential damage could’ve been quite big as the flames would possibly have led to major property damage (such as a house fire) or even worse injuries.Īccording to the user, the MacBook Pro was placed under the bed in sleep mode and was not on charging. He showed his hands that faces minor burns after trying to remove the burning laptop from under their bed. Reddit user u/Squeezieful shared the details of the event on the social media platform. The laptop in question was the 2015 MacBook Pro.įor those unaware, this was the same model that was banned from some airlines as its battery was considered a potential fire hazard. An owner of an Apple MacBook Pro has just recently suffered from minor injuries as their laptop’s battery spontaneously combusted into flames.