deleted photos from iCloud are not deleting on iPhone

Hi! Thank you for trying to help me. Unfortunately, this didn't help. So I like to download my photos from iCloud.com (HP personal laptop) because that's the easiest for me. So after downloading them successfully, I then go and delete them. Usually, once I do this, I can look on my iPhone, and in almost real-time, they disappear. This is not happening anymore. I delete them and they are on my phone. I went to "recently deleted" and then did what you suggested, and they are still there on my darn phone.

The reason why this is so important is that not only do I have 2,500 photos I need to try to organize, but it's a real pain to have to delete them from 2-3 different places. Any thoughts on how I can fix this?

Thanks!

So basically iCloud and iPhone are not syncing like they are supposed to.

Ok, just one more question. Once I go in and toggle the photos, I have a pop-up. Unfortunately it would not let me insert a screenshot, so I'll just type it. It first has a paragraph and then you have to choose from two options. Here is the short paragraph so you understand better:

[Do you want to download a copy of your iCloud Photos to this iPhone? Photos and videos that have been optimized to save space will be removed from this iPhone. The original, full versions will still be available on other devices using iCloud Photos.] Then it is:

Remove from iPhone OR Download Photos & Videos

So of course if I don't choose one then it won't let me simple toggle. Do you have any idea what this is or what I should do? Because I don't want them removed and I don't want to download them. So when I cancel out of this action, it won't let me toggle the iCloud Photos. Sorry for this back and forth.