Natural scrolling has advantages, but right now this setting is all or nothing.

It makes scrolling work the same way it does on a touch screen.

This is a good thing!

Editing a screenshot in Shottr’s editor on a Mac.

The problem is that when I sit at my desk, I use an external mouse instead.

With natural scrolling enabled, that means the wheel does the opposite of what I expected.

Unfortunately, you should probably install a third-party utility to do it.

Laptop on the Windows 11 settings screen coming out of a toggle button.

I can also understand that Apple tends to spend a long time perfecting features before they add them.

It really does make me wonder why this feature hasn’t been updated.

Is this something that’s so small that Apple isn’t willing toSherlockit?

An Apple mouse illustrating disabled natural scrolling.

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MacOS natural scrolling.