How to enable automatic HTTPS on Edge

Visiting secure websites is an essential Internet habit to protect your personal data from bad content. You can do this in Microsoft Edge by turning on automatic HTTPS. When this setting is enabled, Microsoft prioritizes loading websites using the more secure HTTPS protocol over HTTP. Here's how to turn on automatic HTTPS in Edge.

How to enable automatic HTTPS on Edge

Step 1:

At the Edge browser interface, enter edge://flags into the browser's access bar to customize it again.

Step 2:

Switch to the new interface, users enter the keyword flag Automatic HTTPS into the search bar and then will see the flag in the results below.

Step 3:

At this point, users need to switch to Enabled mode to automatically enable HTTPS on Edge.

Finally, click Restart to turn on Edge browser again and apply the new changes.

This way, Edge browser automatically converts the HTTP part of the URL to HTTPS to connect to the website more securely.

Jessica Tanner

Update 16 December 2024