How to change the mouse settings on your Mac

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If you don't like the way your mouse works, you can change it!

When it comes to using a mouse, everyone is different—some like fast double-clicking, others like natural scrolling. Maybe you prefer a traditional button mouse to Apple's Magic Mouse. Maybe you want to use right-clicking again. Whatever your preferences are, you can customize them to suit you better in macOS. Here's how.

How to change the scroll direction, right-click, and tracking speed of your mouse settings on a Mac

The Mac operating system makes it possible for you to make adjustments to your mouse's basic actions with just a few simple steps.

Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of your screen.
Select System Preferences... from the dropdown menu.
Click on Mouse in the System Preferences window.
Select Point & Click.
Tick the box for Scrolling direction: natural to make the mouse scroll in the same direction that your finger moves.
Tick the box for Secondary click to enable right-clicking.
Click the arrow below Secondary Click to choose whether you use the mouse's right or left side to trigger secondary clicking.

Note: you cannot change the secondary clicking side on a non-Apple mouse.
Drag the Tracking Speed slider left or right to increase or decrease the speed at which your mouse pointer moves across the screen.

How to change the speed of double-clicking your mouse settings on a Mac

If you are a fast mover, you may sometimes accidentally trigger double-clicking when you didn't mean to. You can change how fast or slow you need to click a second time to trigger double-clicking on the Mac operating system.

Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of your screen.
Select System Preferences... from the dropdown menu.
Click on Accessibility in the System Preferences window.
Scroll down and select Mouse & Trackpad from the menu on the left side of the Accessibility window.
Drag the Double-click speed slider to the right or left to increase or decrease how fast you must click the mouse to trigger the double-click feature.

Note: At its slowest, you can wait as long as four seconds between clicks to trigger double-clicking.
Tick the box for Spring-loading delay to enable the feature that opens a folder when you hover over it with a file.

Note: This feature is usually enabled by default.
Drag the Spring-loading delay slider right or left to increase or decrease how long you have to hover over a folder with a file before it opens.