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Tinkerer
Currently there is no option to keep the keyboard backlight always On. You can press FN+F9 to turn the keyboard backlight on and off. The default settings for keyboard backlight on battery power is set to OFF. The keyboard will always turn off 30 seconds after the last key stroke on battery power. The keyboard backlight settings will return to default after resuming from sleep or shutdown.
The timer is fixed at 30 seconds to turn Off is to save power while on battery power. It's a power saving feature, continuous use of Keyboard backlight will drain the battery and will reduce the usage time.
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Tinkerer
I do like this laptop, but fiddling in the dark to hit the right button when the light turns off is a pretty huge deal breaker for me.
So why do you not change this in the swift 3 version too?
Tinkerer
On my laptop even when it is plugged into AC Power the keyboard backlight ALWAYS turns off after 30 seconds.
How can I make it so that my laptop keyboard when it's using AC and BATTERY power NEVER EVER EVER turn off?
ACER, there is something wrong with your drivers or software.
Please fix this.
I use med Acer Swift 1 90% with AC power plugged in. It doesn't matter if the backlit was on 100% when on AC power! Power saving feature?
ACER, please take this request into the devs and make it happen for all the models that this "auto turn off 30sec"
I really love this computer, but acer please make it even greater!
Tinkerer
I saw a note about there being a change in the Bios that can turn it on or off permanently, I'm going to see if that might work, otherwise, I"m returning a thousand dollar computer because of this.