New Identity / New Circuit

Users wish to be able to obtain a new circuit for various reasons:

• browsing a website that may not respect their privacy, want to get a new circuit so subsequent browsing activity isn't linked to what was being done before
• a service has blocked the IP address of the user's exit node, so they want to find an exit node that is not blocked
• the connection is slow, and the user wants to find a faster circuit to improve the speed

Note that most users in the study did not differentiate New Circuit from New Identity, and use it when the connection is slow, similarly to "restart" button on their VPN.

With the latest figma designs, refresh circuits can be triggered for:

• all circuits and
• for each app individually.