Microsoft will be shutting down the Microsoft Lens app next month, reports Neowin. The app debuted back in 2014 as Office Lens, which was later renamed as Microsoft Lens in 2021. Microsoft Lens is a free app, available on both Android and iOS devices, that lets you do things like scan documents, convert images to PDF/Word/Excel/PowerPoint files, digitize handwritten text, save to OneNote and OneDrive, and more. It's one of Microsoft's most highly rated apps, with 4.8 stars and 50M downloads on the Play Store. Unfortunately, Microsoft Lens will begin its phase out in mid-September.

Microsoft has unveiled a raft of new updates for its 365 mobile apps, with new AI and natural language features in Outlook, Teams, Office Lens (now Microsoft Lens) and Office mobile, the company announced. It also introduced a new feature called "micro tasks" that let you do quick forms, polls and more in Office and Teams. For Outlook on iOS users, Microsoft will soon introduce conversational AI technology with Cortana. Microsoft calls the feature its first for "interactive, voice forward assistive experiences that aim to provide helpful ways of organizing your daily life." In a sample video, it showed someone asking "Hey Cortana, play my emails," after which the voice assistant read back a recent message.