Does IOS 16.6 synch with mac os 10.15.7?

Does IOS 16.6 synch with mac os 10.15.7? I back up my iPhone 12 to my macbook pro 13 (mid 2012) running Catalina 10.15.7. I cannot update the MacBook pro beyond that. The current IOS update is to 16.6. Does this synch with the Catalina 10.15.7? I saw a blurb on the internet that says for Catalina go to 16.5. There were no more details. I have been burned in the past by upgrading beyond the capability of a Mac OS. I hope to avoid that. Right now I am running IOS 16.1.2 and it synchs with Catalina. What I have seen on the Apple website is device compatibility, but not operating system compatibility. I have no desire to backup to the Cloud. Thank you.