Testing Tip: Always Show Scrollbars
This scrollbar serves no purpose, so it will become visual noise for a lot of your users. But when you yourself use “shy” scrollbars, you might not even realize.
Of course, the scrollbar is just a symptom of a bigger problem – an accidentally scrolling surface that will be janky to everyone regardless of their scrollbar visibility status.
Always-visible scrollbars make it easier to spot these, not to mention also being helpful in spotting[…]
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February 5, 2026 9:08 PM
Or, you could always show scrollbars because that is the way any GUI should work. As far as I'm concerned, this shouldn't even be an option - turning off scrollbars was one of the first steps along Apple's path to UI enshitification.
