How to Keep Scroll Bars Always Visible on Mac (macOS Ventura)

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Learn how to keep the scroll bar always visible on your Mac running macOS Ventura in this tutorial video. Never lose your place again, no matter what app you’re using!

Do you remember when the scroll bar was always visible on your Mac? Well, those days are long gone. But fear not! In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to bring back that trusty scroll bar and keep it visible all the time on your Mac running macOS Ventura or later.

First things first, you need to access the System Settings menu. Now, don’t get confused with the old System Preferences. Apple has changed things up a bit with macOS Ventura. Head to the Apple menu, and then click on the “System Settings” option.

From there, navigate to the “Appearance” section, and voila! You’ll find the setting we’re looking for: “Show Scroll Bars.” By default, it’s set to “Automatic,” which means that the scroll bar only appears when you’re scrolling. But we want to keep it visible all the time, right? So, simply select “Always” instead.

And just like that, your scroll bar will always be visible, no matter what app you’re in. Whether you’re browsing the web in Safari or scrolling through a lengthy document in Pages, that scroll bar will be right there for you to use.

I hope you found this tutorial helpful.

00:00 – Introduction
01:05 – Open System Settings>Appearance
01:28 – Select Always to always show the Scroll Bar on your Mac
02:18 – Wrap Up

Video Transcription

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In this video, we’re going to look at how we can always show the scroll bar. On the Mac. If you’ve been a Mac user for a while you may remember, many years ago, the scroll bar was always shown. While we can still turn that on to where the scroll bar always shows. Let’s go to my Mac. Now I first want to mention that I am using Mac OS Ventura. If you’re using an older version of Mac OS, you can still do this you just need to go to the System Preferences. And it’s I believe, under General or appearance, you’ll see it where you can always show the scroll bar. But with Mac OS Ventura, Apple changed how System Preferences work, it is now system settings. So how can we do this with Mac OS Ventura or later? Well, all you need to do is just go up to the Apple menu. And then from here we go to our system settings. Again, this is what replaced System Preferences. I select it. And now what we do is we go over to appearance. Under Appearance, what you’re going to see is show scroll bars, all I need to do is just select Always, when I select Always, what it’s going to do is always show the scroll bar. So let’s go ahead and select this and watch what happens, you’re gonna see that I have a lot of items here, the scroll bar shows, but then if I don’t do anything, that scroll bar disappears. Now when I turn this on, you can see that that scrollbar is here, it is always going to be showing, and it does this within any app. So now when I go over to Safari, and I open up a web page, let’s go to apple here, you’re gonna see that my scroll bar is always showing on the right side here. So now I can just swipe up. And we can see that that scroll bar here is moving. And I can also just drag this to scroll through the page manually. So that’s how we can always show our scroll bar on the Mac with MacOS Ventura or later basically what we need to do is just go to our system settings, and then we go to appearance and you’ll see always show scrollbar by default, it is set to automatic. All you have to do is just select Always, and that scrollbar will always show no matter what app you’re in. If there’s scrollable content, you’re going to see that scroll bar. So that’s how we show our scroll or always show our scroll bar on the Mac.

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