It is (sort of) justifiable on a touch device like an iPhone or iPad, since you are scrolling by swiping across the content anyway. Which is why I configure my devices to always show scroll bars wherever I have the choice to do so. And I don’t like the fact that this practice has become popular on Windows and Linux platforms as well. Since a Magic Mouse has (effectively) a trackpad built-in to its surface, that’s probably why it doesn’t cause scroll bars to appear.įWIW, I have never liked Apple’s hiding of scroll bars. I suspect that the algorithm for automatic is to behave like “when scrolling” when you have a touch-surface for scrolling, like a trackpad, but like “always” when you don’t. It causes scroll bars to only appear while scrolling. It also causes scroll bars to be always visible.īut, as you observed, a Mighty Mouse does not. I also tried my laptop with an Apple Mighty Mouse (scroll-ball) that I keep in my parts closet. But when I plug in a generic mouse (an HP-branded optical mouse with a scroll-wheel), it switches to behave like “always”. On my MacBook Air (running Sierra), Automatic behaves like “when scrolling” when I’m using the trackpad. Running a quick test on my Mac (Big Sur) with my mouse (a wired Microsoft Basic Optical mouse), “Automatic” behaves like “always”. On my main computer which uses the Logitech Mouse, I have it set for automatically and the slider still comes up using Retroactive by itself.
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