Microsoft is retiring its Office Lens app on iOS and Android

Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android successful the coming months. Microsoft Lens, aliases Office Lens arsenic it’s known to most, will no longer beryllium supported connected February 9th and the app won’t beryllium functional aft March 9th.

The portable scanner features of Lens are disposable successful OneDrive instead, making a dedicated app redundant for Microsoft. You’ll still beryllium capable to seizure pictures of whiteboards, documents, and receipts and prevention and edit them digitally successful OneDrive. Pictures tin past beryllium converted into Word aliases PDF documents, and decently cropped and rotated.

Microsoft first launched its Office Lens app for iOS and Android in 2015, pursuing its first readiness connected Windows Phone. It had unsocial Office integration, and was 1 of the galore iOS and Android “mobile-first” apps that Microsoft created a decade ago.