How to Turn Keyboard Lighting On/Off Easily

Keyboards with the backlit feature look cool. Well, it’s not the standard feature in all the keyboards, many brands have started providing backlit keyboards in their mid-range laptops. If you are someone who often works in low-lighting environments, you will love this feature for sure. Different laptops come comes different ways to turn keyboard lighting on and off. Most of the laptops use an illumination icon on the key to represent that it controls backlighting. However, sometimes it’s not enough for the general users.

Turning HP Keyboard Lighting On/Off

Most of the HP laptops that come with a backlit keyboard have an icon showing three small horizontal squares with glow lines coming out from the left square. You will find this icon on F4, F5, F9 or F11 function key. Just press that key to control the backlighting. However, for some HP laptops, pressing the function key alone won’t work. You need to press Fn with the respective function key. 

Turning Dell Keyboard Lighting On/Off

Dell laptops also come with their own ways to control the keyboard backlighting. You can look for the glowing rectangle icon on the function keys and use the same to turn keyboard lighting on/off. The icon usually remains present on F6 or F10. Now, depending upon your model, you may have to press function key alone or with combination with Fn key. If you are using Dell XPS M1730 or any other similar Dell laptop and unable to find the backlit icon on the above function keys, check the right arrow (->) key of your keyboard. Some Dell laptops use Fn key plus the right arrow key to control the keyboard backlighting. 

Turning Asus Keyboard Lighting On/Off

On Asus laptops, you have to look for tiny glowing keyboard icon on function keys. Usually, this icon is displayed on F3 or F4 keys on the backlight supported keyboards. You can press Fn+F3 and Fn+F4 keys to decrease, increase the backlighting or turn it off.

Turning Mac Keyboard Lighting On/Off

Mac laptops come with a flat rectangle with glow lines icon on function keys to represent that these keys can be used to adjust the keyboard backlight. You will usually find this icon on F5 and F6 keys and use the same to decrease, increase or turn the keyboard backlight on/off. 

Apple also allows you to set the keyboard backlight to auto-adjust according to the lighting conditions. You can go to Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Keyboard and tick the checkbox for Adjust keyboard brightness in low light to enable this feature. 

Turning Lenovo Keyboard Lighting On/Off

Lenovo laptops with keyboard backlit feature have a light icon shown on the Spacebar key. You can press Fn+Spacebar keys to adjust the keyboard backlighting. Lenovo Thinkpad laptops come with a small LED mounted on the top of the screen and points down at the keyboard. You can control this LED light pressing the Fn+PageUp keys.

Turning Samsung Keyboard Lighting On/Off

You can press Fn+F9 on Samsung laptops to turn the keyboard lighting on/off. If you are using a Samsung notebook with Windows 10, you may need to visit Microsoft store to download and install Samsung Settings app. You can use the app to make sure keyboard backlighting is available is enabled or not.

Wrapping Up

I hope you have found what you are looking for. If you want to control keyboard backlit of any other laptop which we haven’t covered here, do let us know in the comments below. We will try to include them as well as soon as possible.