Beginning with Chrome 117, secure HTTPS connections will no longer have a padlock icon next to the URL. Instead, users will see a “tune” icon, which looks like the on/off toggles in the ...

One of our questions was: “On the Google Chrome browser bar, do you know what the padlock icon represents/means?” Of the 463 who responded, 63% stated they knew, or thought they knew, what the padlock ...

Browsers going all the way back to Internet Explorer have used a small padlock icon to denote that a connection is using HTTPS. But according to the team behind the Chromium browser engine, most ...

On iOS, the lock icon is not tappable, so we will be removing it entirely. Across all platforms, Google will continue to mark plaintext HTTP websites and content as insecure.