Missing old photos

dear all,
please help. I have some how lost my old photos that were on my photo stream. I have tried an expensive app that did not work. the photos were over 18 months old and I cant find how to increase the album past 18 months. there is one photo i am desperate to get back as it is of our cat that was run over and it is the only nice photo i have of him!
I have tried to restore album via the iphoto setting and checked to make sure that i am on a setting where my photos go direct into one place. many, many thanks, D

If you are trying to restore photos from photo stream on iCloud, make sure you are signed into iCloud on your device and then connect to a WiFi connection and everything that you have available on iCloud will be populated back to your device. You can only get photos or any other kind of information that you have available on iCloud through a WiFi connection. Cellular data will not do the trick. Hope this helps your problems and Good Luck TO YOU !!

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