RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI
Microsoft is retiring its popular Lens mobile scanner app this fall, steering users toward the Copilot AI chat app instead. Lens will be phased out on iOS and Android starting September 15 and fully removed from app stores by November 15, with scanning disabled after December 15. Launched in 2015 and downloaded over 92 million times, Lens offered free, fuss-free document, receipt and whiteboard scanning—and none of Copilot’s deeper integration or accessibility features.