Need a Microsoft Lens replacement? Five scanning apps to try

Microsoft's document-scanning app Lens has been retired and removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play. Support for the app ended Monday and Microsoft says the retirement began January 9. If the app remains on your device you can create scans until March 9; after that you won’t be able to make new scans, though existing scans remain accessible if you keep the app installed.

Switch to a different device and Lens will no longer be available. Microsoft recommends using the OneDrive app’s built-in scanning feature, which saves scans to the cloud, but OneDrive lacks many of Lens’s editing tools. For basic needs, consider Apple Notes, Google Drive, or Google’s PhotoScan.

Apple Notes (iPhone) lets you scan directly into a note, adjust and rotate scans, apply a few filters, share the result, and—on supported phones—use built-in Apple Intelligence to search or ask questions about a scanned item.

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