Further further update, sorry for the delay - it was DEFINITELY the SD card, it was corrupted. I had to get the tech guys at Best Buy to rescue my pix from the card, and with a new card in it connected just fine. Mystery solved, for me at least!
Ok my card reader is working fine as it recognizes other cards but not this one, so now I’m positive it’s a card corruption - I just hope I can get the pix off it! FYI I never did any formatting of the card.
Ok further update: a friend has the exact same camera but is not on iPhone, so we did a little experiment - he connected his camera to his smartphone, no problem. Then I connected to his camera with my iPhone - again no problem, so a-ha, maybe NOT th...
Called Canon, Mike and I tried EVERYTHING and can’t find the issue. We don’t think it’s my phone as we tried it with my iPad and still no joy. The phone sees the wifi, the iPad sees the wifi, but the camera won’t connect. Went out and got a brand new...