How To Enable Reverse Scrolling On Chromebook [Tutorial]
62How To Enable Reverse Scrolling On Chromebook [Tutorial]
By default settings, Chromebook comes with a reverse scrolling enabled. This applies to the touchpad as well as for the mouse that you have connected to your Chromebook. Google is doing nothing differently here – they are also just following what most regular PCs have been doing.
Before jumping into the guide to change the settings, let me quickly brief about two types of scrolling used in a variety of devices, i.e., Natural scrolling, and Reverse scrolling.
In natural scrolling, the display scrolls in the same direction as the swipe on the Touchpad. Think of it like you are browsing a webpage on your smartphone or a tablet. The web page will scroll in the direction of the finger movement on the touch screen. Reverse scrolling is precisely the opposite. The display will scroll in the reverse direction of the swipe on the touchpad. Natural scrolling was first introduced by Apple for their macOS when they introduced OSx Lion in mid of 2011. The macOS community was confused by this sudden change in the touchpad usage, and many users vented their discomfort via the forums. Apple justified that the reason for the change is to match the swipe operation in its iPhone and iPad.
Chromebook supports traditional scrolling and reverse scrolling. You can change the scrolling direction for your mouse or trackpad from the Settings app.
Coming back to Chrome OS, Google chose to use the Reverse scrolling as default settings. Although this move won’t affect the Windows OS users, people shifting from macOS to Chrome OS may want the Natural scrolling.
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About Chromebooks:
A Chromebook is a laptop or tablet running the Linux-based Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are primarily used to perform a variety of tasks using the Google Chrome browser, with most applications and data residing in the cloud rather than on the machine itself. All Chromebooks released since late 2017 can also run Android apps. Some Chromebooks can run Linux apps.
The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc. and Samsung, began shipping in 2011. In addition to laptop models, a desktop version, called a Chromebox, was introduced in May 2012, and an "all-in-one" device, called a Chromebase, was introduced in January 2014, by LG Electronics.