I have had this issue since I bought my OnePlus 7. While attempting to play minecraft through data it will say "you must connect to wifi" I have turned on use data in the settings and messed with all of my settings in minecraft and the Xbox app trying to resolve this problem.
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-55405, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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