I don't have sure sign-in on Safari or Chrome browers .

patriciafromCapeCod wrote:

Lately all the sites I try to sign in (on my MBA & MBP) are not showing the secure sign. I NEED TO FIX THAT ASAP. Is that a setting?

The padlock icon got overused into oblivion.

Safari now uses secure connections by default, and can report attempts to use insecure connections, as well.

Starting last year, Apple made the following changes:

Safari 18.2 on iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS will always try to load webpages over secure connections first, i.e. HTTPS by default. Only if the secure page load fails will Safari fall back to non-secure HTTP.

In addition, on all platforms, Safari 18.2 also adds an optional Security setting to enforce secure connections and show a warning before attempting a non-secure fallback. The user then gets to choose if they want to cancel or continue over HTTP. The label of the setting is “Not Secure Connection Warning” on iOS, iPadOS, and VisionOS. It is “Warn before connecting to a website over a non-secure connection” on macOS.

Safari does have the same contextual information available from the address bar, as well. The following image is from iPad, but the same information available is available across platforms.

TL;DR: enable the connection fallback warning, if it’s not already enabled. Everything will have https, and you'll be warned on any fallback.

I was wondering where that went. Now I know. 🙂

@patricia

If you want to ensure you have a secure connection, tap on the unified field to see the site's full URL (if it isn't already being show). If it's http, the site is not secure. Sites that are will begin with https.

I don't have a Mac at my disposal right now, but the equivalent steps on an iOS device are:

1. tap the boxy looking icon at the left of the URL field (where the lock icon used to be),
2. tap the "three dots" icon to the right,
3. tap "Connection Security Details (which is where your lock icon went).

There, you can learn everything there is to know about that website's security details.

Safari for the Mac works the same way.

The lock icon in Safari's "unified search field", if that's what you're describing, has been deprecated.