If you want to use the diagram tool for the long haul, it’s going to take a subscription
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away.
As we wrote, the enterprise software giant this week surprised Mac users by making its Outlook for Mac app free to use. Users can download the app from the Apple App Store and get to work on their email account – Outlook, iCloud, Google, whatever – without needing a Microsoft 365 subscription or license.
However, those using Microsoft’s Visio tool for diagrams and vector graphics through the app on their iPhones and iPads only have a few more months before the app is no longer available.
On the same day that the Outlook for Mac news came out, Microsoft confirmed the Visio Viewer app will be removed from the Apple App Store on August 14 and users will eventually have to get one of two Visio subscriptions or through a new or existing Microsoft 365 subscription.
Once the app is removed from Apple’s store, those with it installed on their devices will be able to continue using it, for a while at least.
“Starting August 14, 2023, existing installations of the app on iPhone and iPad devices will continue to work,” Microsoft product manager Abhinav Chatterjee writes in a blog post.
