Haha I have for the past few months wondered where the "update" list had gone in the new App Store. Thanks for the help :) That is of course the most natural place to put that information - said no one ever.
Something must be going wrong here. It doesn’t appear the ‘automatic’ part of that is working :P
Along with the email inbox bug they claim to have fixed but is still very much live and well on my iPhone 7 Plus.