![]() I embrace the trackpad change because it makes sense to anyone who uses an iPhone or iPad (and I use both) but I'm not willing to rewire my brain's way of using the mouse. I don't want to change a decades-old habit with the mouse, just because Apple changed their idea of how a trackpad should work. The idea that Apple treats these as the same thing, when they are conceptually completely different is very odd to me. On the other hand, I'm perfectly willing to use Apple's "natural" scrolling for trackpads, because the metaphor here is that you're moving your fingers across a page, just as if you were using an iOS device's touchscreen. To change the scroll direction on Mac using the Mouse or the trackpad on. This is, in my opinion, the most natural way to do things, even though it is the opposite of what Apple calls "natural". Cant find any option to activate reverse scroll in mouse settings (on windows). Mice have had scroll wheels for decades, and the direction of the wheel turning has always been in sync with the motion of the scrollbar. ![]() (In case you can't understand the rationale for wanting them different, and think this is a ridiculous question, here is the reasoning. It can invert scroll direction for a mouse scroll wheel while keeping trackpads as Natural, which I prefer. So using that app will reverse the scroll direction of my mouse, which isn’t of any use to me. Scroll Reverser sees my Intuos S as a mouse. How can you have different settings for mouse and trackpad? This is a neat little application that Ive used to replace Scroll Reverser in recent times. Scroll Reverser as suggested by u/Alphonse87 doesn’t work for me. The problem is that this also unsets the setting for Trackpad, which I do like. Though it follows natural scrolling in its touch devices.In System Preferences > Mouse there's a setting "Scroll direction: natural", which I don't like, so I unset. Windows haven’t switched to natural scrolling to support its legacy customers. The touchpad of a mac acts as a touch screen device. A few years ago, Apple switched their scrolling direction to follow this analogy as the touch screen is growing in popularity and to support a uniform standard across its all devices. If the user swipes up, the page moves up (mental model-it moves due to friction from the hands of the user like a real paper). With the advent of touch screen, the natural scrolling seems more intuitive as the user is directly interacting with the page. If you imagine the scroll wheel sitting on a paper you were reading, the reverse scrolling direction is intuitive - the content moves in the direction the wheel would push it. SteerMouse - Advanced driver for USB and Bluetooth. Caldis MOS - A little job for your mouse. ![]() And the first scrolling mouse had physical wheels (many still do). Mac Mouse Fix - A simple way to make your 3rd party mouse better. When I move my cursor from my Mac over to my PC and use. I have an external mouse connected to the Mac with Scroll Reverser running to give my Mac traditional (aka non-natural) scrolling. The first trackpad scrolling mimicked how mouse scrolling worked. I have my Mountain Lion MacBook Pro and my Windows 7 Toshiba laptop connected via Synergy with the Mac serving as the server, and the PC acting as the client. So the same metaphor was adopted for scrolling wheels to keep consistency. For arrow keys, metaphor used was to scroll the viewport which seems more natural (By pressing down, users can view the content below and vice-versa). A Little Historyīefore the addition of scrolling wheels to the mouse, page could be scrolled through keyboard buttons-cursor arrow keys or mouse interacting with the scroll bar. ![]() Another way to look at reverse scrolling is that the user is interacting with the scrollbar, rather than the page.
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