Is there a way to now finally set the scroll direction differently for trackpad (natural) and mouse (not) in Sonoma? I know that this has not been possible in past versions of the OS. If not, are there any workarounds?
Thanks to everyone for your response. Since all of the mice that I utilize are from logitech, I installed Logi Options+, which allows you to set the mouse in that app, which over-rides the System Preferences setting. In other words, if you can have the System Preference set to "natural", which will kick in for the trackpad, and have the Logi Options+ set to "standard" for the mouse. By doing that, I got the separate/independent behavior that I wanted (mouse=standard; trackpad=natural), as long as the mouse is by logitech.
Thanks again.
Thanks to everyone for your response. Since all of the mice that I utilize are from logitech, I installed Logi Options+, which allows you to set the mouse in that app, which over-rides the System Preferences setting. In other words, if you can have the System Preference set to "natural", which will kick in for the trackpad, and have the Logi Options+ set to "standard" for the mouse. By doing that, I got the separate/independent behavior that I wanted (mouse=standard; trackpad=natural), as long as the mouse is by logitech.
Thanks again.
mc3dubs wrote:
Is there a way to now finally set the scroll direction differently for trackpad (natural) and mouse (not) in Sonoma? I know that this has not been possible in past versions of the OS. If not, are there any workarounds?
You can try some third party options...
Mouse direction
— https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
—https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org
Sonoma on a Mac Mini still shows the Natural Scrolling option, but can't find it on a MacBook Pro. Feels like a bug.
Able to turn natural scrolling off by running this Terminal command and then logging out and back in again:
defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -boolean NO
Both switches change the same settings. So its not separate control over trackpad and mouse.
Thank you very much for the suggestions. I am reluctant to install something from a 3rd party that has not been screened through the App Store. However, with that being said, I may proceed with doing just that, given the culmination of years of frustration. I can't believe that Apple hasn't addressed this in some way to decouple the 2.
Thanks again!
Both Mouse and Trackpad have this setting in System Settings. You can enable or disable "Natural Scrolling" separately in each.
Yes, that’s the first thing I have to do as well. Then track speed to 10 and cursor size to <blind or old> 😮
Different scroll direction setting for mouse and trackpad?
