But these both control the same setting, so if you change one, the other updates too. There is a setting in OS X to reverse the direction of scrolling under System Preferences > Mouse > Scroll direction: natural, and also under System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom > Scroll direction: natural. This is the way that touch-based surfaces have worked since they first became popular in the mid-2000s. The standard scrolling direction is where you drag the page in the direction you want the page to move (not the direction you want to scroll), so dragging upwards makes the page move upwards, which lets you view content further down the page, so you scroll down.

Touch-based surfaces on the other hand generally work on a 'drag' paradigm.

This is the way that mouse scroll wheels have worked since they were invented in the mid-1990s.

For a mouse, the standard scrolling direction is where you rotate the wheel towards you and the page scrolls down.

I use multiple pointing devices, including a mouse and Apple Magic Trackpad, and it is very frustrating that it is not possible to configure the Mac so that both devices scroll in the standard direction for those device types.īy scroll in the 'standard direction' I mean:

Logitech mouse mac invert scroll