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 12:41 AM

Yep, mine works as you described with Natural scrolling disabled. The point I am making is to allow different bindings to simultaneously exist between the trackpad and external mouse. E.g., I would like to have trackpad with Natural scrolling enabled and external mouse with Natural scrolling disabled at the same time.

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Oct 17, 2023 12:41 AM in response to Old Toad

Yep, mine works as you described with Natural scrolling disabled. The point I am making is to allow different bindings to simultaneously exist between the trackpad and external mouse. E.g., I would like to have trackpad with Natural scrolling enabled and external mouse with Natural scrolling disabled at the same time.

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Oct 16, 2023 1:49 PM in response to hello_world000

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Apple doesn't make a mouse with a scroll wheel, so my guess is they wouldn't waste time with it.

Try thinking about the scroll wheel as being the document you are scrolling. Push up to push the page up. Pull back to pull the top of the page down into view.

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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.

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Oct 16, 2023 1:58 PM in response to hello_world000

What make and model mouse are you using? With Apple's Magic Mouse the page goes the same direction a my finger on the mouse, i.e. finger goes down on the mouse the view of the page goes down and vise versa. This is with Natural scrolling disabled in System/Mouse settings pane.



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Jul 13, 2024 1:41 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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