Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that accumulates something without a lot of confusion.

Microsoft lens It was that type of app: a scanner of mobile documents that transformed paper documents, business cards, receipts and anything else in easily readable digital files. Now that the app is interrupted, says Microsoft, as it is instead to direct its users to its Ai Copilot chat app.

According to the new support documentLens will be withdrawn from iOS and Android devices starting from September 15, 2025, therefore removed from the Apple and Google Play app on November 15, 2025. Existing users will be able to continue the scan capacity of the app until December 15, 2025. But access to previous scans will remain in the app until it is for a long time on the user’s device.

Launched for the first time in 2015, Microsoft Lens (known as Lens Office) evolved from an application originally designed for Windows Phone devices. Although its basic functionality was similar to other mobile scan applications, it did not try to carry out use of users for certain features or to push them into a subscription, a rarity in today’s App Store.

Instead, he performed his task of transforming any note – handwritten or otherwise – document, receipt, business card or even blackboard scripts in the file format of choice, such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or images. He also offered a variety of filters built to improve the resulting image, lighten the document, transform it into a copy of snchaper in black and observation and more.

You go there, save the file on one of the Microsoft apps, other online services or your camera shot. It was simple and it worked well.

The imminent arrest of the app was identified for the first time by the site Bleeping computerWhich underlines that users are directed to Microsoft 365 Copilot AP, which lacks all the features found in the goal. While Co -pilot It is able to manage the scan, it does not support the rescue of these scans directly on ONENOTE, WORD or POWERPOINT, nor does it save the scans of business cards on ONENOTE. Also notice the accessibility features of Lens such as reading e Immersive reader Integration, the site of the notes.

Despite his age, Lens remains quite popular, having brought over 322,000 downloads on App Store AND Google Play In the last 30 days, according to the data of AppFigures Intelligent Appfigures. Sale January 2017, 92.3 million times have been downloaded, show the company’s data.

Microsoft has not yet breathed a request on how in his decision to close the lenses.