No Iphone anymore but old Icloud how do I get the pictures?

I had an Iphone last year but switched to Samsung.

At that time I forgot all my pictures to pull on the laptop, but these would still have to be on Icloud put me on laptop and logged me on icloud.de and clicked on photos, but there's the following:

To use the Photo app, open the iCloud settings on your iOS device, tap Photos, and turn on iCloud photos. Open photos on a Mac, go to Settings, and turn on iCloud photos.

What can I do now to access the photos?

Obviously, you just did not save photos in the cloud because you never enabled the feature on the iPhone.