Restore old apps on new phone?

Just got a new iPhone 5s. The old one went for a little swim.
The App Store knows what apps I used to have installed; they have a different "download" button than all the others do. Therefore, there's a list up there somewhere.
Is it possible to tell this thing to just install everything that I used to have installed? It is infinitely tedious to wrack my brain remembering them all and then painstakingly peck each name into the tiny little box.
iTunes has an "Apps" thing but all it has is the home screen "page" layouts, and the only icons on them when I first plugged the phone in were stuff that came with the OS. As I install more, they appear on the computer screen. Is there some option I should have had checked in order to enable iTunes to keep track of what was installed?
Also, sync by wifi is enabled, but broken: When I unplug the cable, the phone vanishes from iTunes. Is this no longer supported?

One way to do it on the phone -- Open App Store, tap Updates at bottom right, tap Purchased at top, tap Not on This Phone, tap download symbol (cloud with down arrow) to the right of each app.

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