Microsoft Lens app will retire

1. 9 Jan 2026
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   Introduction We’re retiringUpdated January 9, 2026: We have updated this post to reflect timeline updates. Thank you for your patience.  We will retire the Microsoft Lens mobile app forfrom iOS and Android in a phased approach starting September 15, 2025. To continue scanning documents, we recommend using January 9th, 2026. We recommend users to use the scan capability in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, where we will continue to invest in new featuresOneDrive app. This change applies to the Microsoft Lens mobile app on iOS and improvements. WhenAndroid. How this will happen Mid-September 2025: Retirement process begins. Mid-October 2025: New installs of Microsoft Lens will be disabled inaffects your organization The app will be removed from the stores on February 9, 2026. Users who already have the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Mid-November 2025: Microsoft Lens will be removed from app stores. Mid-December 2025: Usersapp downloaded on their devices can continue to use the scanning capability in the app until March 9, 2026. After that, users will no longer be able to create new scans in the Microsoft Lens app. How this affects your organization This change affects users of app. Users can continue to access their previous scans from MyScans in the Microsoft Lens mobile app on iOS and Android. After December 15, 2025, users will no longer be able to create new scans in the app. Existing scans after the change while they still have the app on their devices, although this capability will remain accessible in the app’s MyScans folder, but this functionality will no longer be supported. Users can continue scanning using not be supported by Microsoft. Please note that users need to be signed into your last active account on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, which offers similar functionality. Scans savedLens app to access past scans. What you can do to OneDrive will be accessible via the MyCreations section in prepare This change will happen automatically on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. What you can do to prepare specified dates above. No admin action is required. We recommend notifying Please notify your users aboutof this change, updatingupdate any internal documentation that references Microsoft Lens, documentation, and encouragingencourage users to install and use the Microsoft 365 Copilot OneDrive app for their scanning needs. Learn more: Retirement of Microsoft Lens Compliance considerations No compliance considerations identified, review as appropriate for your organization.needs.For more information, read the support article.

2. 7 Aug 2025 · first version seen

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