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I could but I don’t want to give any money to Apple 😇
If it's a work phone, they should be paying for it, not you.
If OP is in the same situation as me, then he has a work phone that he can use privately as well. It's basically a free high-end phone. Am I forced (OP used that term) to use it privately? No. I could buy a second phone, put my SIM in there, and run around with two phones all day. Not going to do that, to many downsides. And since I can use that phone privately as well, my private phone data isn't going onto any servers my employer controls.
It’s free for 5 GB of data, the applications don’t count since you can download them again.