Can't Connect to Hidden Wifi

hmm…

is network manager installed/controlling your connection? this was the issue for someone i helped a long time ago with the same issue of static ip stuff:

can you check the service via systemctl status

should get long list and one of them is dhcpcd service.

             ├─dhcpcd.service
             │ ├─383 wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -Dnl80211,wext
             │ └─468 /sbin/dhcpcd -q -w
             └─cups-browsed.service
               └─23277 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
pi@screenlypi:~ $ systemctl status | grep dhcp
           │     ├─ 3742 grep --color=auto dhcp
             ├─dhcpcd.service
             │ └─468 /sbin/dhcpcd -q -w
pi@screenlypi:~ $

just wanting to cover all bases for this…


also, this might help:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=140252