iPhone screen broken, locked, no icloud

Storytime: I dropped my iPhone 11 two days ago and slightly cracked the screen. Despite the minor cracking, I cant click anything on the screen. It was time for a new phone anyway, and I thought verizon would be able to do the 'data transfer' or whatever you want to call it, the way they always had. In 2017 I broke my phone dramatically worse than this and they were able to do it no problem. For reasons beyond me, they no longer do this. Point is, I have a new iphone 13 pro.

Im also not very phone savvy, dont understand icloud very well, and dont have anything backed up. So now i have a new phone with just about nothing on it, just some contacts that were on my Mac, and my call history. I dont care about contacts, apps, logins, even notes. What I need is my pictures.

So far I have gone to Apple and they were unable to help. I went to another Verizon, they suggested Best Buy may still have the transfer wires/technology. This was false; Best Buy geek squad suggested getting a wire keyboard (as opposed to wireless) and a camera adapter for iphone (iphone plug on one side, USB receiver on the other) and see if I could type in my password to old phone. This was also a fail

I would use siri or face id, as I was able to send texts using siri yesterday, but the genius bar thought maybe restarting my phone would solve the problem, and obviously you cannot use face id or siri without putting in your password first. Reiterate, i cant put my password in.

I kind of want to exhaust my options before replacing the screen on an iphone 11 i just tried to get rid of. Any help welcomed.