Slow down 'zoom with mouse' wheel on Mac?

[matthewc25497580]

I use Photoshop (23.4.1) with both Mac Studio Ultra and on PC too from Creative Cloud.

One thing that bugs me though is when i use my mouse wheel to zoom in/out on an image.
On the PC, its really smooth and goes in smaller increments but on my Mac, every tiny movement on the mouse wheel (IE, one small scroll on MX Master 3) makes the image increase much greater and becomes almost erratic if doing 2 or 3 semi turns of the wheel.

For example, If working on a large image that displays at 33%, it can take a few turns of the mouse wheel to get to 100% on the PC and it does it smoothly with just the right amount of turns.

Doing the same on Mac, the image goes wildly up in % and the same amount of turns on the mouse wheel can see 300%+ and is really hard to get it near 100% on the mouse wheel alone.

I've found the same issue on various versions of PS so isn't just this latest update so is there a way or setting in Mac to slow down the zooming?

[KShinabery212]

It seems all my Adobe apps are acting that way now with the Mouse Wheel. Glad I am not the only one. I am using a PC...
I can not even use the mouse wheel anymore for it.

[gener7]

Have you tried going into Preferences > Tools and unchecking "Animated Zoom"?

[matthewc25497580]

Tried that but makes no difference.

[gener7]

Sorry for the late reply. It's looking more like a bug. The Bug reporting forum deals with this:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem/ct-p/ct-photoshop?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filt...

In the meantime you can use a previous version of Photoshop without uninstalling your current one until a update that deals with this problem is issued.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html

[matthewc25497580]

All the previous versions have done the same thing too.

[gener7]

Just to eliminate the possibility of this being a hardware problem, can you check with an Apple store or local Mac repair?

Maybe this may help:

https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2021-07-11-scrolling-with-a-third-party-mouse-on-macos-looks-horrible/

[matthewc25497580]

It has the same issue on my M1 Macbook 13" Air and 16" M1 Macbook Pro using a MX Master 3 and MX Master 2.
It has to be an Adobe issue and not a hardware problem.

[gener7]

Have you also opened a chat session with Support?

https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html

Look for this icon in the lower right part of the page:

Keep a log of the chat.

If nothing comes of it, use a trackpad until they get it sorted out.

[Khai Dim]

Just Validating that the problem still exists. Anyone found a solution?

[vladbisu]

Problem is still there. Mouse wheel completely unusable in all Adobe aps. The increments of the zooming are way too large. One wheel stop is equivalent to around 20 stops on Windows in Premiere. And many more in Photoshop. 

[ocean-drive]

I have the same Problem. I use the recent MacBook Pro 16". 

Very annoying, mouse wheel zoom is unusable. 
Thread was opened in 2022, why does it take so long for such a big company to fix it?

[mda55330247]

Hi, Any solution for this yet? facing the same issue..

[CMass]

What brand and model of mouse are you using? Check out this post: https://adobe.ly/3AIljRK ^CM

[vladbisu · Accepted solution]

I found a possible solution guys. Check for your third party apps that are interacting with your mouse wheel. Since all the Mac computers are meant to be used with a magic mouse (which acts more like a trackpad swipe when scrolling) the OS is treats a normal mouse in a strange way. That's why you can't smooth scroll on a mac by using a normal mouse unless you are using a third party app.

In my case, I use Mos. It has a "smooth scrolling' function. Since many apps on Mac are optimized for a magic mouse, the scrolling acts up when you have a third party app that's supposed to "fake" your scrolling.

Luckily, Mos has a function where you can specifically disable smooth scrolling for certain apps (see screenshot)

The problem is gone for me and I can't express how happy I am since I fixed it. That was the only trouble I had with my Macbook and now everything is perfect.

[Mohit Goyal]

I am glad that you found the solution and thank you for sharing with us too.

Thanks,

Mohit

[pagecrook]

Thank you so much. This solved the problem!