A 10 year problem going unsolved, Independent Natural Scrolling

For those of you who don't know, when you turn on natural scrolling for your mouse or trackpad it automatically changes the setting for the mouse and vice versa. It gets pretty annoying when we have this pretty much ingrained in our muscle memory. I started using a mouse for gaming and easier use in the beginning of the summer and still find it super annoying. I've tried to see in the community if there was a solution but apparently this has been a problem since 2013. Its pretty disappointing seeing that Apple brush over this common issue which would be a simple fix with a little bit of coding and a minor update but instead we got an extra button on the iPhone 16... Clearly this will go unsolved and now I want to know if there's any workaround for this that's supported by apple or not I don't care I just want my mouse to scroll properly.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.5

Posted on Oct 10, 2024 1:04 PM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2024 1:16 PM

You mean that you want separate settings for the mouse and the trackpad, yes? If so, there's no way built into macOS I know of unless it's been added in Sequoia, but a third-party utility such as Better Mouse or LinearMouse would perhaps do it. I haven't used any myself, but LinearMouse at least says that you can have separate settings for mice and trackpads.


Regards.

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Oct 10, 2024 1:16 PM in response to SaintPineapple

You mean that you want separate settings for the mouse and the trackpad, yes? If so, there's no way built into macOS I know of unless it's been added in Sequoia, but a third-party utility such as Better Mouse or LinearMouse would perhaps do it. I haven't used any myself, but LinearMouse at least says that you can have separate settings for mice and trackpads.


Regards.

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A 10 year problem going unsolved, Independent Natural Scrolling

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