Why are the backups to iCloud much smaller than those to my PC?  I subscribed to extra iCloud space expecting for the backups to be the same size.  Now I have more unused iCloud space I don't need, can I get a refund?

Backups to my PC were almost 30 G bytes each time,  backup to the Icloud is only 1.4 G bytes.  Expecting the backups to be about the same size I subscribed to extra Icloud space.  Can I stop my Icloud pace subscription amd get a refund?  I have all this extra space and have no use for it.  It does not appear there is a way to use this space for other storage purposes.

You can't merge iCloud backups.  You could create a current backup of your phone, then restore the backup of your old phone to it and save any data you want to keep, the restore it again to the current backup.  Some of your old recovered data could then be synced back to your new phone (such as photos), but other data cannot (such as text message conversations).  You may not want to save any of your old data but restoring the backup would be the only way to see what's there.

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