keynote remote not working

I have installed the latest IOS 7.1 on both my iPhone and iPad 3. I use Keynote quite extensively and was using the Keynote Remote app on my iPhone until Apple recently trashed it out of the App store (I paid $ for this) and it worked for me. I thought that the built in app a good idea. That was until recently when I have had kinds of problems getting it to sync. I usually put the Keynote presentation together on my iMac. On the Cloud it goes to all my devices with no problem with updates, etc. Now when I try to show it on my iPad using my iPhone as a remote the iPhone does not seem to connect. This is even when trying both Bluetooth and WiFi and after I tried all of the solutions of shutting down and restarting, etc. I do see the iPhone is recognized as a remote, but it still does not pick up the connection. Somehow I wonder if the new upgrade to IOS 7.1 has something to do with this??? I am really exasperated as I need to get this working for my next presentation! Can anyone give me any idea of how to fix this? I have even quit the Apps in both the iPad and iPhone and restarted Keynote thinking this might be the problem.........still no solution.😕