I am unable to AirDrop a Numbers file from iPad to iPhone, stuck on Waiting message

Thank you for your speedy response! My previous setting was already ‘Everyone’ when the issue first surfaced, and I had subsequently changed it to contacts only. I did try setting both devices back to to ‘everyone for 10 minutes’, which seems to be the new flavor of the option, but the result was the same. I did not see the different icon as you described…however I do see the different icon for my wife’s phone - but frustratingly enough the file does not send to her device either. I fear I have found the answer, but not one that I had hoped for. Under Settings>Numbers>Document Storage, I have the ‘On My iPad’ option selected, and the subtext reads ‘Store documents only on this iPad and do not make them available on other devices.’ I am speculating that under the new iOS you cannot share Numbers files except via iCloud-perhaps someone more knowledgeable on the subject can speak to this. I do note that there is an explicit message more or less to this effect on my iPhone if I try to share the file via iMessage or email. My wife’s phone is still on iOS 15 and there I am able to share a Numbers sheet via text and email. I checked the subtext on her phone under the ‘Document Storage’ option and the subtext is the same, so perhaps the intent was there all along and iOS 16 is merely implements that intent.