Canon Camera Connect

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Canon Camera Connect

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Basic Information
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Canon Camera Connect is a mobile app which communicates with Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi-equipped Canon cameras (as old as 2012) to enable remote shooting, geotagging, and media transfer to smartphones.

Consumer impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Canon Camera Connect category.

Online account requirement

The application requiring sign-in with Canon ID.

Camera Connect v3.4, released in April 2025, requires a Canon ID sign-in. With v3.4 and newer, it is currently no longer possible to use any of its features without signing in.

The warning displayed to users, as of January 2025.

In early 2025, the Camera Connect app began to warn users that it would require an online account (Canon ID) in the first half of 2025. The alert read:

An important update New features are coming to Camera Connect in the first half of 2025, such as quick and easy product registration, tailored notifications about news, offers, firmware updates and more. To be able to use the new version of the app you will need a Canon ID, if you don't have one, create one and be ready for these updates.

The use of Canon ID is governed by the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which authorize Canon and third parties to collect and process a wide range of information about users, including:

• Personally identifiable information, including “your name, email address, telephone number, date of birth or home address” (clause 2.1.1) and “personal and family relationship information that you may provide on a voluntary basis, such as Email address to which your photos are shared on our Photo Sharing Services” (clause 2.1.2);
• Device and activity information, including “details of your actions (repeated site visits, interactions, keywords, online content production, etc.) when you access and use our Services so that we can build a customer 'picture' over time” and “information about the devices and methods you use to interact with Canon Services and content” (clause 2.2.1);
• Product usage, including “information about your Canon products (such as product model, serial number and purchase date), of how you set up and use your Canon products […] and our Services, as well as details on your Customer Service, Warranty and Repairs interactions with Canon” (clause 2.2.2);
• User files, including “images that you upload to Canon Services or you download from a linked third-party storage service to our Services, and their relevant descriptions and metadata, some of which may include personal information” (clause 2.3.1);
• Location information (clause 2.6);
• Purchase history (clause 2.7).

Canon reserves the right to share the user’s personal information with third parties for various purposes (clause 4), including:

• Service providers which carry out marketing campaigns or run customer surveys;
• Payment processing companies, credit reference agencies and anti-fraud screening service providers;
• Potential buyers in the event Canon sells any business assets;
• Police and regulatory authorities.

Full access to photo library (iOS)

The error message requesting full access to the photo library.

As of January 2025, Camera Connect for iOS requires Full Access to the photo library in order to transfer images from the camera. While Limited Access or Add Photos Only modes are sufficient for iOS apps to save photos to the library, attempting to use one of these modes results in an error message and inability to transfer the photos.

Location permission

Canon uses technical jargon to manipulate the user in giving location permission as of August 2025.

As of August 2025, Camera Connect for iOS requires precise location data to connect a camera. While the app can use this data for the purpose of geotagging photos, the app instead claims:

"[Location information] Required to display the name of the network to which this smartphone is connected when connecting to the camera via Wi-Fi."

Previous versions did not have this forced limitation.