The MS app, which worked perfectly fine for years until this month, and which upgraded on the regular, will no longer support IOS 15.5. The MS app is locked and advises (message is within the MS app, not my iPhone in general) to upgrade to 15.6 or beyond. All the other usual apps on my iPhone 13 work fine, with the exception of NYT which I’ve deleted.
This is a choice on the part of MS app developers since obviously I am able to freely use all my other apps. MS tech support, while polite and apologetic, advised to contact Apple, saying it was an Apple-specific problem.
I do not wish to buy a new iPhone or store my personal data on the cloud. So there you have it.