Do you have the same feeling like us? Feeling annoy when did the first scrolling in OS X Lion? OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll annoy and confuse us as well, we thought that it’s scrolling bugs or error at first. After searching around the forums, we finally understand OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll is the new gesture for mouse scrolling.
You might also wondering why the hell that Apple make the mouse scrolling gesture so difficult for Mac users? Are they trying to play a fool on us with OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll?
Well, the idea of the reverse scrolling gesture came from Apple iPhone. The gesture simply came from how you flip the book, pull the page up to read content further or pull the page down to go up to the top of the content. But it isn’t cool at all using a mouse to do that.
We think that the OS X Lion mouse reverse scrolling gesture is suitable to use on the trackpad rather than using on a mouse. Simply because we have been using the mouse to scroll the horizontal and vertical bar up and down to navigate the page. It only make sense if you are using the trackpad to flip it over left and right, or drag it up and down.
Yes, of course you can, Apple will not confuse you or forcing you to learn OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll gesture. Follow the steps below to disable reverse scrolling.
Click on Apple Icon on the Top menu bar and select System Preferences
Click on Mouse
Uncheck Scroll Direction: natural
You are done with the setting and no more reverse scrolling with Mouse!
Well, we are still using OS X Lion mouse reverse scroll gesture. What about you? Can you cope with the change? I believe Apple might change the gesture of human on using mouse. Don’t believe? I guess there might be software release soon for Microsoft Windows to activate reverse scrolling 
We will see.
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Thank you so much!! I am new to Mac OS, and I failed to scroll 99% of the times I had to do it. Natural scroll direction!? Natural on a touch screen, not on a laptop!!
I use a Microsoft mouse. There is no option to disable reverse scrolling. What do you do when that happens?
I will buy a Mighty Mouse
I understand that Apple is selling more iPhones/iPad’s than computers and this new reverse scrolling will be comfortable to new customers but, THIS IS NOT A TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE! Get your stuff together Apple. In your desire to build a larger customer base you’ve alienated many of your existing customers.
[...] Inverted mouse – are they completely oblivious? Why would i want to scroll my mouse wheel down to move the window up on my macbook… iPad=yes. computer=no. I realize there is an invert setting.. but it never should have been default. SLOW [...]
Thank you!!!! I was ready to uninstall Lion because of the way the mouse scrolled. I feel like Apple was insulting my intelligence by trying to make all the scrolling the same across all devices, but I am smart enough to know the difference!
I am using a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 3000 (insert MS joke here) and i can’t find the option to undo the unnatural scroll. Any advice?
Uncheck “Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating” and scroll will be back to normal.
You can uncheck this in the trackpad area if you have a logitech or MS mouse.
I have an microsoft mouse and a mac mini (thus no trackpad) — any ideas for how to disable it in this case?
Thanks for posting this, big help. Microsoft Mouse users, just uncheck the “Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating” box in system preferences–> mouse (its the first option).
This is taking a little getting used to but as a new iPod user, I like this change. In the long run this is more logical, given how touch is taking off. So do we want to adapt or not? I suspect many in the US will complain, that’s the American way, after all, we are still resisting the use of metric.
I have a Microsoft Wheelmouse Optical and the latest Intellipoint software. The checkboxes you show do not show up in OSX 10.73. This sucks.