Photos are missing after failure to pay iCloud storage?
i am missing over 10k photos that were on my iCloud. I didn’t pay the storage fee. I never got any emails saying it failed. It was linked to my cashapp which i don’t use often so i didn’t notice it was failing. It was last paid 9/17/21, and it finally charged again 11/4/21 after trying from 10/17/21 onwards. I am completely unsure where these photos went..they are not in recently deleted. Or anywhere. The storage was the 50GB, which is almost full with the 8k photos i have now. So my question is, where were the photos being stored in the first place if this is almost full now, and i had much more before. I’ve transferred these photos from multiple phones over the years and they’ve been on the cloud i assumed. I didn’t delete them myself. Please, any help to get these memories back would be greatly appreciated.