How do I recover missing iCloud photos from my iPhone?

kittyforhire wrote:

nearly all of my icloud saved photos have disappeared from everywhere even though I did not delete them!

I have tried to locate them but my cloud is missing thousands of photos that were previously there.

While have older ones backed up on a hard drive more recent ones and nearly everything i had created folders for is gone!I pay for extra cloud storage so I dont understand why I cant access them

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