What are the problems with backlit keyboards? Without backlighting, you’d be typing almost blind and make more mistakes. It can be difficult to see the keys in those settings, so backlit keyboards shine an LED through the keycap, allowing you to identify all the keys on the keyboard. Your Mac’s keyboard light in low-light situations, such as when you’re using your MacBook in a dimly lit room, lecture theatre, or conference room. Other keyboards may have just a few LEDs under the keys, which means some keys are more illuminated than others. The implementation of backlighting in keyboards varies, but Apple notebooks tend to have an LED for each key, which means the brightness is consistent across the keyboard. But to help you do it all by yourself, we’ve gathered our best ideas and solutions below.įeatures described in this article refer to the MacPaw site version of CleanMyMac X.īacklit keyboards are now so common that it’s difficult to remember a time before all keyboards had backlights.

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