1. If you have tried and failed to connect, erase all connection info from the camera and from the Bluetooth on the phone, start clean!
- Start Canon connect on the phone
- turn on WiFi and turn on Bluetooth on the camera.
- click pairing in the Bluetooth menu and complete the connection in the camera connect app. click ok or respond on camera and phone.
- In camera connect, when you click to remotely control the camera, it will setup a AD-Hoc WiFi connection to the camera, you will have to respond OK on the canon app and the camera again.
After that, it will operate and remember the connections when you turn on the camera and the canon connect app on the phone. You still have to ok the WiFi, I think this is for security to prevent someone else from activating live view on phone or camera via WiFi.
I keep WiFi and Bluetooth turned off in my camera, but if I planned to use it a lot with tethering, I'd keep it on while I was planning to use if frequently.
The Remote tethering is very basic, no intravalometer, no bracketed exposure, no bracketed focus, a lot of things are missing that would be useful to me. I tried to find a good IOS app, and ended up giving RemotEOS a try even thought it does not support the R. It halfway works but is quirky, and the author will not be able to update it soon due to his lack of a R camera.