Security lock disappeared for PNC account after updating my iPad
The security padlock is no longer appearing for pnc.com and I am wary of using my account. Is this due to the recent ipad update?
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iPad Air, iPadOS 18
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Safari and some other modern browsers no longer show the padlock icon. Simply tapping the Safari (or other Browser's) Address field will show the full URL.
When using TLS/SSL (i.e. the URL begins with "https"), the connection between your device and host is encrypted. A padlock icon is not, of itself, a reliable indication of privacy or ultimately that your connection to the intended host is secure; Bad Actors can use encryption in exactly the same way as bona-fide host connections.
You should not rely upon seeing a padlock icon as any guarantee of connection safely - and for this reason, its use is slowly being deprecated.
NB: Unlike Safari, some third-party Browser Apps (e.g. Firefox, Opera) do still show a padlock icon.
Corollary
For iOS/iPadOS 18.x, you can configure Safari to warn when you are not connecting to an encrypted web page:
Settings > Apps > Safari > [Privacy & Security] Not Secure Connection Warning - set to ON