Allow different "Natural scrolling" bindings for mouse and trackpad.

It would be great to add a feature that allows different bindings for an external mouse and trackpad for the "Natural scrolling" setting. I believe that many would agree that "Natural scrolling" enabled works great on the trackpad but feels very unnatural on an external mouse. When I scroll down on the mouse wheel, I expect to scroll down the page rather than up (up is the behavior with "Natural scrolling" enabled). Thus, I would like to keep "Natural scrolling" enabled for the trackpad and disabled for the mouse. This is not currently possible because changing the setting affects BOTH.



MacBook Air, macOS 13.3

Posted on Oct 16, 2023 10:44 AM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2023 02:51 AM

FWIW, there is a third-party app called Scroll Reverser that may or may not work with Ventura.

https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

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Jul 11, 2024 11:08 AM in response to hello_world000

Barney-15E,

I do use the scroll wheel on the mouse in the manner you described. However, when I "push up to push the page up" with the trackpad, using the same setting, the page goes down. Thus you see our dilemma. I personally don't understand why Apple makes a setting on the mouse affect a setting on the trackpad and vice versa...whether they make a mouse with a scroll wheel or not.

Jul 13, 2024 01:41 PM in response to Barney-15E

Barney-15E wrote:

Well, I don’t have a scroll wheel mouse, so I could have the direction backwards.
all of those questions we cannot answer because we do not work for Apple nor have any communication capability with them.

Borrowed one and realize I was correct before. Same motion on my TrackPad and scroll wheel results in the same scroll direction. Pushing up pushes the content up and pulling back pulls the content down, exactly as I'd expect.

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