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. Unfortunately, a note on the app's site says it is currently not fully compatible with MacOS Catalina.
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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. If your Mac is running macOS Ventura, you may have noticed that it makes window scroll bars visible only when you are actively scrolling with your mouse or trackpad. For context, Scroll Reverser ( is a tool that allows users to set different scrolling types (natural or reverse) depending on the device type (e.g. Here is a comment on one of the forum posts that I like so much that I am quoting it in this article – I was surprised to find forum posts dated 2011, which means Apple still hasn’t fixed this, maybe they do not think of it as a problem which should be addressed, and if they haven’t addressed it in 5 years, I don’t hope they will come up with it in near future. Only the devices in use will appear here. You should see 'HID compliant mouse' You may see more than one if you also have, e.g, a Magic Trackpad. Click 'Additional mouse options' Click on the Hardware tab. I searched for a solution and found that there are many others who face the same issue as mine. Identify the device ID's in use from the Mouse Control Panel Start->Settings. It only changed in Lion or Mountain Lion I believe and in MacOS you can change the. Then, with your mouse connected, go back to your Mouse settings in the System Preferences and adjust scrolling accordingly.
Tick the 'Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present' option.
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I use different machines for different purpose, and even when I forced myself for using the ‘natural scroll’ for the mouse, it creates problems when I was using my Windows Desktop for work. How to reverse mouse and touchpad scrolling direction on Windows. Go to Accessibility settings for Mouse & Trackpad in System Preferences. Make sure Reverse Scrolling is enabled, then check what you’d like to reverse. Even though Apple has given separate check boxes for enabling ‘natural scroll’ in both Touchpad and Mouse preferences, but they both are linked to each others, which means if you uncheck it for the Mouse, it also gets unchecked for the Touchpad as well. Click the icon, then click Preferences to configure your scrolling settings.
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