If the only place you've seen the Grand Canyon is from the North of South Rims, consider the Canyon inside as a more scenic, more intimate, and yet more expansive view of this grand canyon. This trip we went back down Hermit's Trail, but instead of two nights at Hermit's Creek we turned east on the Tonto Plateau Trail for a few more miles for two nights in Monument Creek Campsite. From there we spent much of Day Two wandering down Monument Canyon along the trickle of the creek, to the Colorado River and Granite Rapids. Day Three we climbed straight out of Monument to the Tonto Plateau and headed 11 miles to Indian Garden for the night, then up to the South Rim to finish. Tonto is not easy to get to, and not easy to come back up from, but even if you get a site at Indian Garden for the night, it's 4.5 miles down, and you can set up camp then go either west or east on the Tonto to explore and look up--always look up--to see true grandeur.
Iphone Conundrum: Some people take only their phones and don't bother with the weight and complexity of a camera. For most purposes, that's all you need. Unless you need what a camera provides--consistent coloration, greater pixel saturation for printing--then a phone camera can be more than sophisticated enough for one's internet needs. The downfall and possibly the deliberate design of a phone's image sensor: more color even at the expense of reality (I call it the Velvia Effect). Real landscape photographers want you to see what's really there, not some oversaturated, highly contrasted landscape that exists when the viewer's on acid.
Still, look at the iPhone folders and see what my iPhone X can do (find my wife's--Bo's--FB posts and see what her 11 does), and marvel at what leaps and bounds photo technologies have come to in less than 10 years. These images are edited--lightened, and attempts were made to tame the early morning color reflecting off the Rim--but they're pretty much Apple images.