Do you often want to turn on your keyboard backlight but don’t know how? You often need this when you are working in a place with poor lighting. However, it’s not a standard feature on all keyboards. A lot of laptop models have backlit keys. To light up the keyboard, manufacturers use a lot of techniques to light it up.
Look at your personal computer, you will see a key marked with an icon that represents ‘keyboard illumination. That’s the Keyboard Backlight. Keep reading to learn more.
How to Turn on Your Keyboard Backlight
Turning On Dell Backlit Keyboard
To find out if your Dell computer has a backlit keyboard, for an icon that looks like a glowing rectangle on the F6 or F10 function key. Based on your laptop model, you can click the function or click it in combination with the Fn key. However, if the illumination icon isn’t shown on a function key, check the Right Arrow key on the keyboard. Many Dell laptops use the Fn key plus the Right Arrow key to turn the backlight off and on.
How to turn on HP Keyboard Backlight
Many HP laptops support keyboard backlighting. These ones have a backlight icon on the F4, F5, F9, or F11 key. Usually, the icon displays 3 small vertical rectangles with glow lines coming from the left rectangle. In other models, just click the function key to turn on the keyboard backlight. However, if this doesn’t work, click the Fn key with the backlight function key.
How to turn on Mac Keyboard Backlighting
Backlit keyboards are available on portable Mac computers that display the keyboard brightness key, which shows a flat rectangle with glow lines. Press and hold the key to increase or decrease the amount of backlight. On some Mac keyboards, the F6 key increases backlighting, and F5 decreases it.
Further, you can set some Mac keyboards to automatically adjust keyboard brightness based on available light. To do this, proceed to the Apple menu, click System Preferences and select Keyboard. Toggle on the checkbox for Adjust keyboard brightness in low light. Once the keyboard detects available light, it will adjust by itself.
Further, many Lenovo laptops are configured with a backlight keyboard. They usually have a light icon displayed on the Spacebar key. Click Fn+Spacebar to switch the backlight between Off, Low and High. The Lenovo ThinkPad has the ThinkLight, a small LED on the top of the screen, and points down at the keyboard. Click on the Fn+PageUp keys to control it.
Other Laptops with Keyboard Backlight
Samsung laptops use Fn+F9 to turn the light on and off when backlighting is available. However, Samsung notebooks running on Windows 10, download and install the Samsung Settings app from the Microsoft Store. Make use of the app to backlight.
ASUS Keyboard Backlight Settings
For ASUS keyboards, just locate the backlight key on an ASUS keyboard, it is a small keyboard with glow lines. Usually, it appears on the F3 and F4 keys if backlighting is available. Always click the Fn+F4 to increase backlighting on the keyboard. Make use of the Fn+F3 to reduce backlighting and turn the keyboard backlighting off. It is not hard to do at all.
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