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Just lock the screen and you’re good to go for keyboard cleaning.

With a locked screen, key presses go to the password field. I have twice caused my user account to become disabled due to too many password attempts while cleaning my keyboard.

A pro tip from a Mac sysadmin who gets to clean a lot of filthy laptops: https://folivora.ai/keyboardcleantool

What's the equivalent of "locking the screen" for cleaning an Apple TV's paired remote?

Tell the Apple TV to restart and you have 15 seconds to clean the remote.

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