Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it’s known to most, will no longer be supported on February 9th and the app won’t be functional after March 9th.
The portable scanner features of Lens are available in OneDrive instead, making a dedicated app redundant for Microsoft. You’ll still be able to capture pictures of whiteboards, documents, and receipts and save and edit them digitally in OneDrive. Pictures can then be converted into Word or PDF documents, and properly cropped and rotated.
Microsoft first launched its Office Lens app for iOS and Android in 2015, following its initial availability on Windows Phone. It had unique Office integration, and was one of the many iOS and Android “mobile-first” apps that Microsoft created a decade ago.