ghost1810 wrote:
Im on windows not mac, and I've tried that the date created, date modified and date accessed changes to the current date (today). The strange thing is that I just purchased a $1.29 icloud storage and still no photos are showing up in windows explorer.
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/5e86db54-8d55-401a-9ede-5e8ae2b63557
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/1e83249a-6c0b-4e00-8f56-8ea477ba7b68
It shouldn't matter if it's Windows or Mac, as it's a website, and it's possible that it might even work on Linux or Unix computers that can access iCloud.com.
You don't want to do this from your phone, but from your PC. What you're trying to do with your iPhone will only be able to pull up photos directly stored on the phone, but not if you've offloaded them to iCloud. If your photos are stored on iCloud, you can do this simply with access to Apple's iCloud.com website through your PC.
There is also the iCloud Photos app for Windows, but I think that's more about sharing selected photos on your PC to an account on iCloud.com and Apple devices.
Set up and use iCloud Photos on your Windows PC - Apple Support
I had a look at my own iCloud account and I do have photos there, which I guess are limited since I only have the free 5 GB storage. And I've been able to download photos from the iCloud.com website after I logged in with my Apple ID.
But I think some of this might be a little bit confusing, so this would be it step by step.
1) Go to your PC, pull up a web browser, and go to iCloud.com.
2) When it comes up, it will ask you for your Apple ID (email address) first (ENTER) then type your Apple ID Password (ENTER).
3) Click on the Photos icon on the top row.
4) Now you'll more or less see the iCloud Photos screen that SravanKrA displayed. Other than that's on a Mac, it's basically just a web browser interface. You can have this same access on pretty much any browser with a desktop interface.