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Why do my function keys not correspond to the legend?

I have a 2010 MacBook Air that works great, except that the keyboard backlight does not work and the function keys are offset by one, for example if I press the pause key it skips back, which is what the button one key to the left should do. Please Help!

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I managed to fix it by installing a program called karabiner elements which reset everything.

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Apple redid the keys assignments between your series and the newer models

Go into your keyboard settings within Preferences see if the Use F1, F2, etc… option is checked off? I would check on Show keyboard and emoji viewers so you can then have that visible to see if the keys are working correctly.

Let us know what you discover.

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The board works and all the keys are received correctly. How do I remap them or fix this problem? I am running high sierra.

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@nhelle - Lets see if resetting the SMC and NVRAM fixes things.

How to reset the SMC of your Mac

Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac

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Nathaniel Hellewell will be eternally grateful.
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