Reading your post, I immediately thought of this service - https://instasaver.pro/.
I think it will be useful for you, because my friend downloaded and saved all the photos when she was under a cyberattack. You just need to paste a link to a photo or video, and everything will be downloaded. It's fast, but at the same time, your data is of high quality and protected from fraud. I think more than one person is grateful to the developers) Good health

You can ask your friend to download the pics and send to you.