This evening I have realised that when switching phones in January this year (and using the backup and restore function) many of the pictures I had are still missing and in Photos its showing "Downloading..." and has done now for weeks.
Since then obviously more photos have been taken etc... So restoring the backup from December/January would obviously loose all of them.
Any suggestions?
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.4
Is iCloud photo library turned on? On your new phone?
Try going here Get help finding missing information in iCloud after restoring an iOS device - Apple Support
Hope this helps, best of luck to you.
Thanks for the fast reply and suggestion - unfortunately it is turned on, that was my original hope to fix it! Not sure if its a bug but can't find too much online of similar issues.
If iCloud Photo Library was enabled, your photos were not in a backup. They would have been only in your iCloud Photo Library.
Have you checked at iCloud.com for your photos?
If you device is still trying to download photos, toggling it off and on again may start the download and sync.
What, if anything do you see at iCloud.com?
Missing Photos from Backup / Data Transfer
