Microsoft is going to do away with the Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs as of August 11, 2025. Microsoft posted a notice on its API documentation pages with this news.

All existing API instances will be completely decommissioned and the API will no longer be available for use. No replacement will be provided. This decision will affect anyone using resources F1 and ...

Today, however, Microsoft announced that it will soon start charging for access to the Bing Search API. The subscription price will start at around $40 per month and will include 20,000 queries.

There’s a variation of the widget with a custom wallpaper, and another with a plain background. But that’s not the only new feature coming to the Bing app for iOS.