Using MacOS Tahoe and Text Edit version 1.20 (415), the horizontal scroll bar always appears. Even in a new document. It is like I have word wrap turned off. But there is no way to toggle Word Wrap. How can I get this to go away?
Mac mini, macOS 26.1
I think I may have accidentally stumbled upon a work around for this annoying issue while looking for a way to remove those guidelines when “Wrap to Page” is checked in the app’s settings. While looking through the other options in Settings, I simply unchecked “Show ruler”, and to my surprise the horizontal scrollbar disappeared. Unchecking the option in the app's settings results in the scrollbar not being present on future New Documents, while clicking on Format > Text in the Menu Bar for an open document that already has the unneeded horizontal bar, and again simply unchecking the "Show Ruler" option removes the horizontal bar.
In both situations the vertical bar remains visible for me (I have my Mac global settings to show scrollbars "Always". Other than no longer having the ruler constantly visible (which I virtually never use anyway), I can still "Show" it if I need to change the margins and/or tab indent settings for the document, and then turn the Ruler back off again.
Am I missing any major (or minor) drawbacks to this “fix” that would make it not worthwhile? Let me know if there are. Thanks.
I don't see any horizontal scroll bar.
+1 I didn't see a scroll bar until I shortened up the window and/or filled it with large text.
Thank you! That fixed it. I suspect that the default setting changed with Tahoe 26.1.
Good suggestion about the scroll bar widths.
Bug is still present in macOS Tahoe 26.3. đź‘Ž
This bug appears to be fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.4. At least, I am no longer seeing it. Can anyone else confirm? Thank you.
I just updated right now, and am experiencing the same thing as you: the bug does seem to have been fixed. Better late than never, I guess, lol.
Seems they have fixed it with macos 26.4,
after checking a couple of TE files.
(wrong post. How to delete?)
For me the horizontal scrollbar vanishes in TextEdit when I disable the System Setting > Appearance > Show Scroll Bars > Always.
Change this to "When Scrolling".
I have usually set this to "Always", because then I will know, if a panel can be scrolled or not.
Horizontal scroll bar always appears in TextEdit on macOS
