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How to Manually Adjust Keyboard Brightness on M1 MacBook Air

Keyboard Brightness controls missing on your MacBook Air M1 (late 2020)?

Mayur Agarwal by Mayur Agarwal
January 2, 2021
in Mac, Tips 'n' Tricks

Have you upgraded from the previous generation MacBook Air or Pro to the recently launched MacBook Air with Apple’s M1 processor? In that case, you will notice a small yet interesting change in the new MacBook Air keyboard. The keyboard on MacBook Air 2020 with Apple silicon chip adds dedicated keys for Spotlight, Dictation, and Do Not Disturb. The new function keys replace the Launchpad and Keyboard Brightness controls found on Intel MacBook lineup.

Spotlight, Dictation, and Do Not Disturb functions keys on new m1 macbook air
MacBook Air (M1) with new function keys

However, this change doesn’t apply to the new M1 MacBook Pro as it features a Touch Bar instead of a function row. Perhaps, this small revision can be haunting for existing MacBook users upgrading to late-2020 MacBook Air M1. That’s because you cannot manually adjust the keyboard brightness on M1 MacBook Air using the traditional F5 and F6 keys.

Worry not! It is still possible to change the brightness of the backlit keyboard on M1 MacBook Air running macOS Big Sur. The only downside is that you cannot use physical keys anymore to control the keyboard brightness or switch on/off keyboard light. Let’s see how it can be done.

How to turn on/off keyboard light on MacBook Air M1

  1. Click the Control Center icon in the menu bar at the top-right on your Mac. The icon resides between the Spotlight and the Siri icon by default. control center in menu bar on macOS Big Sur
  2. Click the “Keyboard Brightness” button. keyboard brightness setting in control center on mac
  3. Drag the slider to increase or decrease the keyboard brightness as per your preference. how to manually adjust keyboard brightness on m1 macbook air 2020

That’s it. In a similar way, you can adjust the display brightness from the Control Center itself without using the keyboard.

To turn off the keyboard light on M1 MacBook Air, just drag the slider to ‘0’ level. Doing so will turn off the keyboard illumination.

TIP #1: Drag and drop the keyboard brightness control from Control Center to the menu bar for quicker access.

add keyboard brightness to menu bar on Mac

Alternatively, go to System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar and select “Keyboard Brightness” from the sidebar. Then enable the “Show in Menu Bar” option.

dock and menu bar settings on Mac

TIP #2: Don’t want your MacBook to automatically adjust keyboard brightness according to ambient lighting conditions? In that case, go to System Preferences > Keyboard. Uncheck the “Adjust keyboard brightness in low light” option.

keyboard preferences on macos

How to reassign keyboard brightness keys on M1 MacBook Air

Here’s an alternate method for users who frequently change the brightness of their keyboard and rarely use the Dictation or Do Not Disturb function.

In such a case, you can choose to remap keys on MacBook Air. To do so, follow the steps below.

  1. Download and install Karabiner Elements, a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS.
  2. Run the Karabiner Elements app.
  3. Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy. Select “Input Monitoring” from the left pane and click the lock at the bottom to make the changes.
  4. Tick mark “karabiner_grabber” and “karabiner_observer” app to grant them the required permissions to work. grant permissions to karabiner elements on MacBook Air 2020
  5. Run Karabiner Elements again and open the “Function keys” tab. You will notice that the default profile doesn’t perform any change other than replacing the F5 and F6 buttons with the original shortcuts. reassign keyboard brightness keys on M1 MacBook Air
  6. Simply press the F5 and F6 keys to turn up and down the keyboard brightness with ease.

Tip via [Reddit]

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