The latest Macbooks lack keys to adjust keyboard brightness and F5 and F6 don’t work as it was previously. To fix that create a new plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents
named com.local.KeyRemapping.plist
and added the code below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.local.KeyRemapping</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/bin/hidutil</string>
<string>property</string>
<string>--set</string>
<string>{"UserKeyMapping":[
{
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc": 0xC000000CF,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst": 0xFF00000009
},
{
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc": 0x10000009B,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst": 0xFF00000008
}
]}</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Save the file and reboot. F5 and F6 will now work as keyboard brightness up/down keys (after you log in for the first time after rebooting).

Also, you can add MacOS Settings -> Control Center -> Keyboard Brightness
Switch on the needed controls

Now the keyboard brightness can be controlled from the Control Center (top right corner of the Screen)

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