How do you view files in the icloud

My iphone has 4.9GB of data backed up to iCloud and I have only the 5G capacity and don't want to buy more. I moved about half my data off my iPhone and now only have about 2 GB. After moving the data off the iPhone, I then I backed up my iPhone to iCloud and it still said I had 4.9GB. I figured it would remove from iCloud the data I moved off my iPhone. Is there any way to go see what files are stored in iCloud or any way to reduce the size of iCloud by removing them by doing a backup of my iPhone.
One other thing. Although what I moved and deleted were mostly photos, is there a recycle bin on an iPhone I also need to empty that might be included in the iCloud backup?
Ultimately, I just want to reduce the size of iCloud to be similar to the amount of data on my iPhone.

Thanks for the messages. I've also figured out the primary question of how to get the size of the iCloud size down after I removed files from my iPhone. You have to Turn Off and Delete the the Camera Roll category for example, then turn it back on. Then do another backup and this will resize the iCloud file size.

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