Cannot scroll when selecting text while holding down the trackpad on macOS Sonoma

aliakhavan89 wrote:

I've noticed it on two different machines (Intel and Apple Silicon) that in Preview.app and Notes.app I cannot scroll when selecting a piece of text while holding the trackpad down (meaning that I haven't ended the text selection process, for which I use my thumb). But as soon as I lift my thumb (ending the text selection) the text start scrolling (as if the scrolling has been in the memory but hasn't been activated because of the text selection).

Note that a similar gesture works perfectly fine on other apps such as Safari and Mail. So I guess it's a bug, right?

Use the Shift key to select everything in between the initial selection and the last selection

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