How To Remove Reverse Scrolling In Mac OS X Lion

Written by John Thompson on August 12, 2011 · Filed under How To 

Love it or hate it, reverse scrolling looks like it’s here to stay – on Apple devices at least – with the feature being used not only on iOS devices, but also computers shipping with Mac OS X Lion.

If you don’t like the new scrolling direction in Lion, then you can still change it back to the way it was in Snow Leopard and earlier without any trouble through System Preferences.To change the scrolling direction, open the System Preferences application and select ‘Trackpad’. The preference that you’re looking for is called ‘Scroll direction: Natural’, and it’s under the ‘Scroll & Zoom’ tab.

Navigate to this tab, and you will find that the scrolling preference is checked by default. To change the scroll direction back to the way it was under Snow Leopard, simply uncheck it.

You can, of course, go back to System Preferences at any time to restore ‘natural’ scrolling to the way it was by default under Lion, so if you want to try both out to see which you prefer, you can do so without worrying about getting it back to the way it was.

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