Many users who have just come into contact with Apple computers are not used to the trackpad, and in order to work, they can only choose to use the mouse to make it up.
But when I connected the mouse, I suddenly found that the direction of Apple's mouse wheel was actually the opposite of Windows's!
When you scroll the mouse wheel, the wheel is facing down, the page is also down, the wheel is up, and the page is also up.
Accustomed to the operating logic of the Windows system, when encountering this situation, there is an indescribable discomfort.
Why does apple computer have the opposite direction of the mouse wheel than the PC? There are many opinions on this question, and there are currently 2 most mainstream answers.
First, the early mouse design of MAC was different from Windows
Instead of a "scroll wheel," the Mac's mouse uses a trackball to move the cursor, and with the touchpad, scroll through the swipe up or swipe down gestures.
So until now, Apple has also used the trackpad as the primary interaction hardware, rather than the mouse.
magic mouse
Although Apple did launch a "mouse" product, that is, magic mouse, it did not have a "scroll wheel", and there was no division of left and right keys, and it still used touch operation logic.
So when you hold a mouse with a scroll wheel and use it on a Mac, the operating habits must be consistent with the Mac system.
Second, the underlying interaction logic of the two systems is different
Windows pages generally have "scroll bars" present, and the mouse wheel controls the sliding of the page by controlling this "scroll bar".
In the default application of Apple's system, there is generally no "scroll bar", even in the Safari browser, the scroll bar is generally hidden, and it will only appear during the sliding process.
That is to say, Apple's scrolling operation is to directly control the page itself, rather than indirectly controlling the page through the "scroll bar". Therefore, the Mac system will naturally not adapt to the third-party mouse for the normal operation of the scroll wheel.
Is there a way to make a Mac work like Windows?
Yes, three ways!
First method: Change the system settings
First click on the blank space of the desktop, click the [Apple] icon on the upper menu bar, select [System Preferences] in the pop-up menu, find [Mouse] in the System Preferences window and click. By default, the mouse wheel direction is [natural] (checked) state, then we uncheck [natural], the mouse wheel direction will be exactly the same as the Windows computer.
Second method: set it up through third-party software
Baidu search [MOS] above this free and open source mouse optimization application, download and install.
After installation, click Start MOS, right-click the icon on the status bar above, and select Preferences
After opening the settings, click [Flip Direction], and then check [Boot Boot].
The third and most recommended method: use a mouse that supports Mac mode
Consumer pain points and needs, mouse manufacturers have long noticed, now there are many mice specifically in the driver layer adapted to the Apple computer, built-in "Mac mode", the perfect reproduction of the Windows system to use the mouse experience, not only a good solution to the scroll wheel orientation problem, but also the side button function also brought to the Mac platform. In this way, the fallback operations such as Safari and File Manager can be achieved by side keys, no longer need to click, which is more convenient and fast.
So, have you learned?