How to Disable Inverted Scrolling on Mac OS X Lion

A quick video on how to disable inverted scrolling ("natural" scrolling) on Mac OS X Lion (10.7).

Important:
If you have a computer that does not support all the gestures, your trackpad settings will be different. Click on the "When using gestures to scroll or navigate, move content in the direction of finger movement" instead at the very top.

If you are on a desktop computer without a trackpad, go under the mouse settings and click "Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating".

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[andrewjnp]

why is it on Lion my trackpad window does not look like anyone elses. I do not seem to have instead the columns you have of point & click, scroll and zoom and more gestures I have two columns titled tracking spee and double clic speed

[tjasko1]

@andrewjnp Read the description.

[santschopantscho]

For all those with 3rd party mouse with scroll wheel on a desktop computer: there is no way to switch off natural scrolling. but there is a workaround! download the free tool "scroll reverser". It is actually a tool to emulate natural scrolling when you work with snow leopard. In Lion, it gives you the old fashioned scroll style back!

Google pilotmoon scrollreverser

[tjasko1]

@santschopantscho Worked fine for me without using any third part software. And I'm using the Logitech LX8. :)

[stinky472]

3) I'd recommend any professional who has to work on various workstations and various operating systems to avoid getting used to this (un)natural default setting and turn it off as soon as possible, or else you'll end up getting used to Apple's way and not the way that everyone else has been doing it for years (exceptions for Magic Trackpad which is a whole new kind of device).

[stinky472]

My thoughts: 1) It's very arrogant for Apple to take something that has been industry standard for decades now, with no one ever complaining to the contrary that scroll wheels are counterintuitive, and suddenly flip their whole freaking OS. 2) People without a technical background assume that flipping the OS for touch devices like Magic Trackpad was Apple's only option. They could have just flipped their touch devices, deeerp!

[presidentsnookaroo]

Thankyou!

[dodorey]

Thank you brother, you made my life easier. Nice video, no bullshit, very functional.

Great work!

Cheers!

[SwanginNBanginENT]

Thanks

[ZOEYLEON88]

thank you so much!

[emo6hamster93]

whats the deal with this invert thing.. lion mac os x is good but that new feature is whack.. thnxx 4 the video dude.. it help me a lot

[nulk1]

it doesn't work for me it just says searching for Bluetooth track pad

[nulk1]

lol i have that same mouse