While Microsoft continues to add new features to OneDrive to improve the overall experience, the company doesn't mind removing something that users don't find useful. According to Microsoft, the ability to upload files to OneDrive directly from URLs is one of those features that is not useful to many users and has therefore been discontinued.
Microsoft is terminating some OneDrive functionality
Uploading files to OneDrive directly from URLs is currently available in preview for OneDrive Personal. However, due to low usage and high maintenance costs, Microsoft will no longer support this feature. This is as of March 29, 2024. As Microsoft stated, it may stop working at any time after the mentioned date, without any warning.
How are users affected?
This change will affect everyone who likes the convenience of uploading directly to OneDrive from URLs, but it doesn't affect files that have already been uploaded this way. These files will still be there after March 29, unless of course you delete them.
Otherwise, you can continue to enjoy the ease of file sharing, integration with Microsoft Office programs, and AES256 encryption that makes OneDrive one of the best cloud storage services.
Although dropping support for the file upload feature may disappoint some users, Microsoft has big AI features planned for its cloud storage service. One is to allow you to let Copilot search files to answer questions. Copilot in OneDrive will also summarize your documents. And all this will come next month.
So we can only wait for more features to arrive on this platform.
