New Macbook Pro System Preferences Not Saving

When I change the scroll direction of my mouse and trackpad in system preferences, it only saves until I sleep, log out of my account, or restart my computer. When I reopen my account, the scroll directions reset back to what they were before.


Brand new Macbook. It has the latest update and did the same thing prior to the update. Still does it after I restart.



MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 18, 2025 4:23 AM

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Mar 18, 2025 8:05 AM in response to jcottenie

jcottenie wrote:

When I change the scroll direction of my mouse and trackpad in system preferences, it only saves until I sleep, log out of my account, or restart my computer. When I reopen my account, the scroll directions reset back to what they were before.

Brand new Macbook. It has the latest update and did the same thing prior to the update. Still does it after I restart.



A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies


Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.


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