Some of my photos aren't on my new phone even though I backed it up to the cloud

Hi there,

Thank you for posting. I understand you might be missing some photos on your new iPhone.

To double-check, were you using iCloud Photos, or were you backing up your device to iCloud?

As a starting point, I recommend checking out these resources; they cover a few possible solutions that might be helpful:

Get help with missing photos

About missing information after you restore your iOS device with iCloud Backup

I hope this clears things up for you! Take care.