Google announced that the lock will be replaced by a new “tune” icon with the release of Chrome 117 in September to help users better understand what its actual purpose is.

Google says it will roll out the new icon with Chrome 117, which is set to launch in September, 2023. But folks running beta, dev, or canary channel builds of Chrome may be able to see it sooner.

The company notes how “browsers have shown a lock icon when a site loads over HTTPS since the early versions of Netscape in the 1990s.” As of today, over 95% of page loads in Chrome (for ...

Google will replace the lock icon on desktop and Android in “early September 2023.” However, the company will withdraw the icon entirely from iPhones as Chrome on iOS doesn’t allow users to ...

unlocked Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means Google says only 11% of users understand "the precise meaning of the lock icon." ...

Unicode is an international computing standard in which every character or symbol has a specific numerical value that can be used across platforms. Matthew Scroggs, a postdoctoral research fellow ...

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