Microsoft is retiring its Workplace Lens app on iOS and Android

Microsoft is eradicating its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android within the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Workplace Lens because it’s identified to most, will now not be supported on February ninth, and the app received’t be useful after March ninth.

The transportable scanner options of Lens can be found in OneDrive as a substitute, making a devoted app redundant for Microsoft. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to seize photos of whiteboards, paperwork, and receipts and save and edit them digitally in OneDrive. Photos can then be transformed into Phrase or PDF paperwork and correctly cropped and rotated.

Microsoft first launched its Workplace Lens app for iOS and Android in 2015, following its preliminary availability on Home windows Cellphone. It had distinctive Workplace integration and was one of many many iOS and Android “mobile-first” apps that Microsoft created a decade in the past.