I lost my phone how would i get my pictures back?

i lost my iphone yesterday and it literally had my whole life on it..how can i get that all back? pictures contacts EVERYTHING.  when i went inot mac they gave me a phone that had a smaller GB. So most of the time my phone wouldn't even be able to be backed up. but someone else told me about iCloud and how that would help?

There is nothing you can do now that your phone is gone, other than kick yourself in the head for leaving "litterally your whole life" on a device that can easily be lost (as you've done), stolen, dropped, or damaged without any sort of backup whatsoever.
All you can do at this point is to learn a very valuable lesson about backing up your data.  No one thinks losing thier phone or their hard drive crashing  will happen to them--but it's not a matter of IF, it's WHEN.

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