iOS 17.6.1 app store display broken

Since updating to iOS 17.6.1 I have found the “app store” application to be unreliable. While it does eventually work, it seems to take much longer to update downloaded applications. Until this update, the app store would show you a list of applications that are available to update. Selecting “update all” would see that list update continuously - as each download completed, the count of programs to update would be decreased by 1, and the most recent update description would move the top of the list of “UPDATED RECENTLY”.

Now you get no overall indication of progress until all the updates are done. If you change to another app, e.g. “settings” to check your network, when you go back to the app store, it hangs with the rotating circle and you need to force quit and restart app store to see what the progress actually is.

This is a major inconvenience - updates take over 5 times as long, and the “updating” list no longer accurately shows what is happening.

Amazing how something that worked reliably for a dozen years suddenly looks like it was written by a failed student programmer!