Warning: Whiny rant below!

I hate iOS 11.  There's nothing I like about it.  It makes my iPad (2017 model, 7th generation, whatever you want to call it) much more difficult to use and provides me absolutely no benefits over iOS 10.

• There is now absolutely no way to clear all notifications.  The "clear" button is gone and supposedly the only way to do it is with 3D touch.  However, 3D touch isn't available on all devices, like my iPad.  So, I have to swipe to clear every single one.
• The horribly-deceptive Wi-Fi toggle is a PITA.  Now, instead of just using the control center to shut off Wi-Fi, I am forced to navigate to settings every single time to doit.  This is more wasted time.

Here's a list of useful applications that are no longer supported since they're 32-bit only (indirectly, this is Apple's fault):

• Remote Potato: I used this to remotely manage my WMC setup.  Now, I'll have to use the web.
• Rover: This is the app to control the Brookstone Rover I got for Christmas a few years ago.  Now, it's turned into a doorstop.
• myTracks HD: Hands down, this is the best GPS tracker for the iPad.  Now, I have to find something else.
• Doom: Sigh.

Also, there's a bug in iTunes 12.7 that results in all of the tracks from my legally-purchased (albeit manually tagged) music showing up as separate albums.  Yes, that makes browsing music by album fairly useless.  Other folks are suffering from the same problem but the only solution seems to be to downgrade iTunes, something I can't do because older versions don't support my iPad.

The one thing they could have done for me is to allow location services to be toggled from the control center.  But nope, that's not part of the available toggles that can be customized.  Figures, since Apple wants that to stay on 24x7.

Sigh.

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