Pilotmoon software produce this tool, and you can download it from their site. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple didn’t just integrate this into their OS at some point. It’s a simple tool, but it helps provide a better user experience across almost every application. It’s creatively called ‘Scroll Reverser for Mac’ and is compatible across many versions of MacOS. Luckily, there is a great free tool that sorts it all out for you, and you can tweak it to your heart’s content. It is only possible to select scrolling to be reversed or not reversed for all input devices. On Macs, especially MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, it drives me crackers that Apple haven’t provided an option in the preferences to choose to have the trackpad scroll in the direction of gesture, and the mouse to scroll as expected, the other ‘normal’ way round. Habit aside, the reason we do this is because they are thinking about where the mouse cursor is moving to, as opposed to the actual content. This is because many users have become accustomed to using mice prior to touchscreens are familiar with the mouse wheel scrolling in the opposite direction to the direction that the screen is scrolling. However, this interaction response from the interface does not generally translate very well when mapped onto the mouse wheel. In order to scroll, users have become accustomed to the screen scrolling in the same direction as the gesture swipe, due to that being how the majority of mobiles and tablets respond to scrolling. On websites and within most software applications, scrolling is a completely normal way to access things that are hidden off the screen, typically in the vertical dimension. Click the “Reverse scrolling direction” to the “On” position in the “Mouse” tab to invert the scrolling direction.Ever since touch screen devices started appearing, our expectations on how screens respond to use input, by mouse, tablet or touch (directly on the screen or on trackpads), has become more varied. This setting may feel more natural to users that primarily use touchscreen devices as it matches the swiping gestures used to scroll.
Enabling this setting will invert the mouse scroll wheel so that what used to be a scrolling down is now scrolling up. Use Scroll Reverser to Separate Mouse and Trackpad Scroll Directions. Scroll Reverser is a free app created by Pilotmoon Software. In the mouse and touchpad settings, click the second slider in the “Mouse” tab, labelled “Reverse scrolling direction”, to the “On” position. How to Set Separate Scroll Directions for a Mouse and Trackpad on Your Mac Installing Scroll Reverser. Press the Super key, then type “Mouse and Touchpad” and hit enter. Tip: The “Super” key is the name that many Linux distributions use to refer to the Windows key or the Apple “Command” key, while avoiding any risk of trademark issues.
To be able to invert the direction of the scroll wheel, press the Super key, then type “Mouse and Touchpad” and hit enter. In Linux Mint, it is possible to invert the mouse scroll wheel direction for any mouse, without needing any other software.
For example, you may be expecting an upward scrolling motion to have a downwards result rather than the traditional upwards scroll. This movement and result may feel natural for most users, but some users may not feel comfortable with this setting and may not even know why.Ī potential reason for this is that you may naturally expect the controls to be inverted. Conversely, scrolling the mouse wheel from the bottom of the mouse to the top is interpreted as scrolling up the page. Generally, when you scroll the wheel from the top of the mouse to the bottom, this is interpreted as an instruction to scroll down the page.
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