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September 13, 2026
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How to always show scroll bar in Acrobat for Mac without turning on always show scroll bar for all applications on my Mac???

  • September 13, 2026
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I am told that the ONLY way Acrobat now in 2026, in an age when I’d expect us to achieve maximum customizability because we have AI in the most trivial tasks, is by GLOBALLY turning on the visible scroll bar for EVERY SINGLE application on my mac.  Why do you force me to turn on a continuously visible scroll bar in Safari or LaTeX just when I want it on in Acrobat?  You literally removed a setting you had a few months ago in your prior version in Preferences!  Do you just want to make our lives difficult?

 

And the other thing:  why do I even care?  Because only Acrobat, charging customers $1000+ a year, manages to fail at getting something as basic as a scroll bar right:  even when I move my cursor to make the scroll bar appear, your scroll bar toggle is a CONSTANT BEIGE/WHITE so that it blends in with almost all documents.  See image below.

And finally?  OK, it’s white, but I can still kind of see it as long as my eyesight is better than the average person sees 50+:  but no, we make it go away as soon as you go to catch it!  The little scroll bar likes to play games on you!

 

If your software development team does not immediately fix this and all the other glitches your constant “updates” create as oppose to fix (since AI designs your software, and you can’t possibly check all the mangled Frankenstein brain thought to do), then I don’t care about all the fancy, shiny stuff your software does; it is worthless.  I’ll use Apple Preview if I need to!

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    creative explorer
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    September 14, 2026

    @agile_code7921 Sorry to hear you're dealing with all that. Are you using the new Acrobat interface?  I'm on a MacBook Pro M5 Max and haven't experienced the scrollbar issues you're describing, but I'm still using the classic Acrobat interface. It may be worth testing whether the behaviour changes when switching between the new and classic UI.
     


    Once you disable the new Acrobat interface, Acrobat will restart to apply the change. After it reopens, check whether the scrollbar behavior has improved. While this may not resolve the issue, it can help determine whether the problem is related to the newer interface or to Acrobat itself.

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