How do I proceed to retrieve my photos/videos?

When I did my clear out from my iPhone 13 to delete everything, my iPhone 16 was in the same room, I had already did the transfer a few days before , everything had transferred just fine , a layer looked into y phone and realized I lost about 75% of tje photo and videos …..never had this happen before

was going to attempt to plug the 16 into my laptop to try iCloud recovery , but the laptop doesn’t have that small plug in in it … and it would be my first , I’m not overly tech savvy , hence why I’m hoping for a simple solution here. :)

how do I proceed to retrieve my photos/videos

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