You can force the keyboard illumination to turn back on by covering up this ambient light sensor which is located directly to the left of the isight facetime camera on macbook pro and macbook air.
Macbook air light up keyboard.
I have a 2011 macbook air and it has a backlit keyboard the current model is the 2nd air model to have a backlit keyboard more less posted on dec 18 2012 7 15 am.
I ve been testing the latest builds 49 50 on a 2011 macbook air and they both work great what is keeping me from installing cloudready is the fact that i cannot get the backlit keyboard to light up.
I ve tried the alt f8 shortcut mentioned on the keyboard settings page but had no luck.
The backlit magic keyboard has an ambient light sensor so it adjusts to your environment conserving battery life.
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To make it less bright press f5.
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The macbook air isn t bad but it can t quite keep up.
Speaking of battery life the macbook air provides up to 11 hours of wireless web browsing and up to 30 days of standby time thanks to its built in 49 9 wh lithium polymer battery.
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In our looped video test with the screen set to 120cd m2 brightness and true tone turned off it.
Adjust the brightness manually.
Camera wifi touchpad and keys all work as expected.
The incredibly thin and light macbook air is now more powerful than ever.
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To set your keyboard brightness to adjust automatically.
The macbook air is known for its battery life and the 2019 version keeps up that proud tradition.
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The sleek wedge shaped design is created from 100 percent recycled aluminum making it the greenest mac ever.
Select the adjust keyboard brightness in low light checkbox.
If the ambient light sensor on macbook pro and macbook air models detects too much light the keyboard illumination will disable itself and refuse to turn on showing the above locked image instead.
It s a couple of hours behind those devices in all our tests including light web use nine and a half hours video playback 10 hours.
From the apple menu choose system preferences then click keyboard.