Windows 11 tests one-finger scrolling on precision touchpads
The option, hidden in Settings, lets one finger along the edge of the touchpad scroll vertically, and is limited to Windows Insider testers.
Microsoft is testing vertical one-finger scrolling on precision touchpads in Windows 11, the standard on recent laptops. Until now, scrolling a page has taken two fingers.
The setting sits in Settings, under Bluetooth and devices, then Touchpad and Scroll and zoom. There, the user picks the side of the touchpad — right by default, or left — along which one finger scrolls vertically. It brings back edge scrolling, familiar from older Synaptics touchpads that came before precision touchpads.
The option arrives with three other gesture settings, among them scroll speed and accelerated scrolling, in experimental build 26300.8376 of Microsoft’s test channel. It is aimed mainly at accessibility: people with reduced mobility have asked for a one-finger mode for years.
Microsoft warns that features in this programme can be changed or dropped.
