No cloud option

Which console? Cloud storage only has to be enabled on the 360. On the One/Series S/X it's automatically enabled and will save to the cloud as long as you're signed into Live.

Xcloud is something different then. He would need a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Then he would use the Game Pass app on his phone to use the Xcloud service.

It is an Xbox one. We do have Live. He got a controller to play on his phone and i cant figure out how to play games without being conected to the actual xbox.

Thank you for the info!

had an original xbox one and it stopped connecting to the internet so we bought a new xbox one s and went to download games and nothing had any of our saves, so now transferring things via an usb stick, and was wondering why things (not games themselves
but like levels earned, things unlocked, progress, etc) weren't already on the xbox one s once we were signed into xbox live account constantly (up til last week). And trying to make sure for the future that progress would be saved to cloud so this doesn't
happen in the future. Thanks so much!

Like Smwutches said as long as you were connected to live (internet) when playing those games on the One your game progress will automatically be saved.

So as long as you are signed in with the same account that you were playing with on the original console before it went out on you the game saves should automatically redownload whenever you load back up the game.