Want to go back to a Canon Powershot, which one?

Thanks for the quick reply.  At some point in the past, I knew those numbers; but when responding to the OP, I could not bring it up.  32 GB ought to be plenty for the A720IS.

Well yoyu asked, so:

I did, and thanks for explaining.

Canon image gateway has been closed and all user accounts deleted. This was part of the system required to upload from the camera SX700HS.

Required? Maybe I'll show my ignorance of how others operate, but to me wifi on a camera was / is all about the easy transfer of photos from the camera to a phone or tablet. I just checked, and the Canon Camera Connect 2.6.10.15 app that I have on my phone is still there in the Google Play store, and it worked fine last I tried it. So in that regard, for me, the Canon wifi is as good as it ever was, maybe better.

To transfer photos to a regular computer, I can't imagine why anyone would not simply pop the SD card out of the camera and into the computer. Both my home desktop and my work laptop have built-in SD card readers, and the photos copy and paste like any other files between any other drives.

So I'm guessing here that Canon image gateway was a way to connect your camera through any Internet-connected wifi network to a Canon photo hosting site, where you could upload your photos and then download / link-to as desired. Is that correct? If so, then that's not a service I'd want to use--but obviously you and presumably others feel differently.

So: sorry for your problem. And while I don't expect Canon to support everything indefinitely, a 2014-15 camera is not so old that Canon should drop support for it. (FWIW, your SX700 is newer than three Powershots I still semi-regularly use, an SX230 HS, an S110, and an S120).

How it USED to work was this.

1. Take photos, go home.
2. Single push on a button on the camera.
3. View/edit pictures on desktop.

Simply addressed the objective to have the photos from the camera on your desktop.

ONE SINGLE PUSH of a button.

No mobile phone needed, or file copy paste, or folder creation, cable connection, or pulling cards in and out etc.

It simply addressed the objective to have the photos from the camera on your desktop.  One button push.

Now Canon decided to stop this functionality.

Can you indicate how Canon have improved matters for me??

You're unlucky. The new platform Image.canon is now available.
But, yes, "older" wifi equipped cameras are left in the dust (G16, S120, G7X mkI, SX700HS and so on.)
Here is the connectable model list.

If you look at this list, you can see that, for some camera, it's not an hardware issue.

The G7X mkI or G9X mkI are not in the list while the original G5X and G3X are and they have been announced in the same period.

That's a bad marketin decision IMHO.

I agree, its a bad marketing decision.

But surely I should not have to rely on luck for camera features to continue to work in the future!

You should be able to rely on the manufacturer.

but it seems

With Canon you can't.

Perhaps you could use Faststone to do the import, creating folders and setting the titling on files also. Bulk Rename is also a handy programme, let alone the more commercial ones. However, if you like pulling cards and doing filing, knock yourself out.

I am of course familiar with the process you describe, and use other cameras where this is necessary. So regretfully I don't find your post particularly informative, as it does not address the issue.

My point is I bought a Canon camera that could do the import with a single button push. Handy as a time saver and also as I am not the only user of that camera.  It was a selling point.  New tech and all that.

Now Canon have decided I can't do that any more. And no one can suggest a way of getting it working again. Please post your solution that works with a single button push the way it used to. That would be great, and would have my entire respect.

Just suppose:

I guess your camera autofocuses with a shutter half press.

Just suppose for a moment Canon decided that your autofocus would no longer work unless you either held down three buttons simultaneously, stood on one leg or sang the Marseillaise in Albanian. (other languages available).

Just suppose you might quite justifiably complain it wasn't that way when you bought it and ask for a solution to get it to work the way it used to. I could then post back that you should be focusing manually anyway......            That is how your post came over.

I am still hoping for a solution that returns the single button press functionality. Doesn't seem Canon care however.

Bad Show.

How it USED to work was this.

1. Take photos, go home.
2. Single push on a button on the camera.
3. View/edit pictures on desktop.

Simply addressed the objective to have the photos from the camera on your desktop.

ONE SINGLE PUSH of a button.

No mobile phone needed, or file copy paste, or folder creation, cable connection, or pulling cards in and out etc.

It simply addressed the objective to have the photos from the camera on your desktop. One button push.

Now Canon decided to stop this functionality.

Can you indicate how Canon have improved matters for me??

If you liked that system, then I'm sorry it's no longer available for you. And I already stated that IMO Canon was premature in dropping support for a camera that it sold 2014-15, i.e., that was replaced barely five years ago.

Maybe I like manual operations and control more than some, but between renaming photo files, directing them to different folders of my choice, etc., that system does not appeal to me. The more automation a system has, the less control the user has.