Whatever the case, it's now gone, and the Magic Keyboard with the iPad Air has the same mute design, too. So, we can expect it to be the new design going forward with all Apple's Macs, no doubt.

Why does this matter? Well, as you'll notice if you're reading this on a Mac, if you tap the mute button on an Apple keyboard, you get a speaker icon with a strikeout line through it on screen.

However, this design does not clearly indicate that the button can both mute and unmute the computer’s audio. With the ...

The keyboard fix, which iCulture first spotted, finally puts a line through the mute icon on the MacBook keyboard. The icon used to be a speaker symbol without the sound waves on the volume up and ...

The old mute button design had not changed since the PowerBook G3 debuted in 1999. Apple users had lived with a small inconsistency between the physical keyboard symbols and the way macOS ...

It also expanded its Keyboard Service Program to cover all Apple laptops with butterfly keyboards across the MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro lines. Read next Jump to ...