Overview

• Google plans to retire the padlock icon indicating website security from Chrome in September 2023.
• The lock icon will be replaced by a new "tune" icon as part of a wider Material You-themed redesign of the browser.
• Google claims that in a study it conducted in 2021, only 11 percent of participants actually understood the intended purpose of the lock icon.
• The new tune icon will encourage users to click through and access more information about their security and connection settings.
• The lock icon will be replaced with a variant of the tune icon that's often used to represent control menus.