Microsoft Lens App to be Retired on March 9

Microsoft Lens, the company’s PDF scanner app for iOS and Android, is being retired very soon. The app previously known as Office Lens will be removed from the App Store and Google Play Store on February 9, 2026, and it will lose its scanning capabilities on March 9.

Microsoft previously announced in August that Microsoft Lens would be deprecated on November 15, 2025, with the scanning capability going away on December 15. It looks like the company quietly changed these dates on the support page that originally announced the news (via The Verge).

Going forward, Microsoft recommends users switch to the OneDrive mobile app, which also includes a scanning feature. However, OneDrive doesn’t support saving scans locally. As an alternative, the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Microsoft 365 app) can also

Office Lens first launched on Microsoft’s now-deprecated Windows Phone platform back in 2014, and iOS and Android apps followed a year later. The app was rebranded to Microsoft Lens in 2021, and the Google Play Store shows that it crossed over 50 million downloads.

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