Microsoft Axes Office Lens But Loves Scanning So Much It Hid It In OneDrive

KEY POINTS

•Microsoft announced Office Lens will stop being supported as of February 9th, 2026.
•After March 9th, the Office Lens app on iOS and Android will no longer function at all.
•The app’s core scanning features are now integrated into Microsoft OneDrive, replacing the standalone experience.

In an epic game of hide-and-seek, Microsoft announced the retirement of its once-celebrated Office Lens scanner app, launched in 2015 and beloved for snapping whiteboards, receipts, and documents. Effective February 9th, Lens will lose support, then crash-and-burn by March 9th on iOS and Android. But fear not, loyal scanner enthusiasts! The scanner features live on stealthily inside OneDrive, making the dedicated app ‘redundant.’ Microsoft clearly wants to challenge users' powers of observation by embedding scanning within storage — because if you can’t see it, it might as well not be there, right? Finally, a slick haiku: 'Office Lens retires. OneDrive steals spotlight now. Scan, save, adapt.'

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Microsoft buries Office Lens by stuffing its scanner features inside OneDrive—because why make scanning obvious when you can confuse everyone instead?

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