Microsoft is shutting down one among its hottest free cellular apps
Microsoft shall be shutting down the Microsoft Lens app subsequent month, reviews Neowin. The app debuted again in 2014 as Workplace Lens, which was later renamed as Microsoft Lens in 2021.
Microsoft Lens is a free app, out there on each Android and iOS gadgets, that allows you to do issues like scan paperwork, convert photos to PDF/Phrase/Excel/PowerPoint recordsdata, digitize handwritten textual content, save to OneNote and OneDrive, and extra. It’s one among Microsoft’s most extremely rated apps, with 4.8 stars and 50M+ downloads on the Play Retailer.
Sadly, Microsoft Lens will start its part out in mid-September. In mid-October, the app will now not be out there for set up on the Play Retailer or the App Retailer. In mid-November, the app shall be fully faraway from each app shops. In mid-December, customers received’t have the ability to create new scans utilizing Microsoft Lens.
Microsoft hopes that customers will swap to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, which has a scanning function in addition to many different options.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
