My albums and photos have disappeared from Google photos app

[TheWeatherGirl1]

And I didn't touch them, I swear.

I'm sweating as I don't have these backed up, I thought Google photos was the back up!
Does anyone have any previous with this and can help me get them back again?

Anyone?

Have you tried following the steps detailed here:
support.google.com/photos/answer/6128858?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en

I think there's a setting change that does this. It happened to my dd, she did manage to download them all again. She's not here so I can't ask but I think we found lots of advice online.

Sadly the advice doesn't help as they've vamooshed but not by my hand, so they're not in the bin. They're just gone so I can't restore them.
But thanks for the link

I haven't changed any settings, there was an update and everything has gone.
Very frustrating