Comments on: Keyboard Illumination Locked? It’s the Light Sensor

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:33:31 +0000

I have never had this happen before and I’ve had my mac for almost a year now. Thanks so much for the easy fix!

By: V

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:54:05 +0000

Thank you so much! I actually called, and this person gave me a complicated result.
turning off the laptop, and pressing some buttons for restart…
blah blah blah…

then googled the question, led me to your site.

thank you so much, for making fellow apple users’ life easier!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:52:24 +0000

Thank you!!

By: JDC25

JDC25 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:35:35 +0000

Many Thanks – I, too, thought my new macbook air was busted….thanks for taking the time to put this out there.

By: Anthony Tanas

Anthony Tanas — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:42:04 +0000

Now I know.

By: Anupama Daniels

Anupama Daniels — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:29:51 +0000

Thank you so much for your info…it really helped me.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:15:19 +0000

Thank you!!! Mine was just turned all the way down and I didn’t know where to turn it on! Duh!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:05:58 +0000

Thank you! This was driving me nuts.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:47:34 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! i thought my new (and first) macbook pro was broken, so thank you so much for this !

By: homeion

homeion — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:31:11 +0000

Thanks. I just needed that. Sitting by a lamp, and still needing backlight.

PS: I have disabled the automatic feature in System Pref. No need for Lab-tick.
https://skitch.com/kobayashi/8g6xx/keyboard

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:19:10 +0000

I was thinking of doing the same thing. Bought my first mac (macbook air 11 inch) and only discovered this a few days later so I thought it was already broken but later in the day “miraculously” it worked again… lol

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:43:11 +0000

I was just about to return my Macbook to the shop thinking it was broken!!! I wondered why the keyboard lights would come on when I lowered the screen down and then the keyboard lights would go out when I moved the screen back up. Behind me, facing the screen was 3 halogen lights

By: redtek

redtek — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:20:30 +0000

Awesome – thanks for the Lab-tick link. I’m using it now on a well lit, but slightly shadowed table. The built-in sensor kept turning it off and I couldn’t see the keyboard or turn it back on. Now I have lab-tick I can! Perfect!

By: Sandro

Sandro — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:12:44 +0000

Grazie,

By: Leef

Leef — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:11:01 +0000

here’s a question along similar lines:
I sometimes get the same disabled icon with sound on my 27″ imac. is there a way to disable the external sound port altogether so it plays through the internal speakers?