What Happened To Cydia? iOS Jailbreak's Most Famous App

In today's video, we're discussing what put an end to iOS' most recognizable app, Cydia, a package manager from back in the days available only through jailbreaking. Cydia has been the icon of jailbreaking for an entire decade until iOS 15 finally broke it for good after being abandonware for years. What happened to Cydia? What happened to Saurik?

Jailbreaking your device is legal thanks to a DMCA exemption granted in 2012 and updated in 2015 which makes jailbreaking your device perfectly fine. With a jailbreak, you can customize the look and feel of your device's UI even further by installing themes, custom icons, custom fonts, animations, and tweaks.

IMPORTANT: This video is provided for informational, research, and news purposes. Jailbreaking is free and legal as per DMCA 2015. Please use jailbreaking tools responsibly.

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[TheosTechTime]

Long story short:
- Someone joined jailbreaking scene
- they made cydia
- left
- cydia got rly old and incompatible with newer jailbreaks
- people made new cydia replacements and then switched over to them
- now cydia sits in legacy app heaven

[TheUltimateGod_]

R.I.P Cydia. It will forever always still be the #1 most popular source to install jailbreak tweaks from

[BryanAllen-ocwg]

i haven’t commented in a while but i still watch your videos either on this account or my main but i’m glad to see you care for the viewers this is what keeps me coming. keep up the good work and we appreciate everything you do❤

[Nomisuryoutube]

Thank you Geo for the history, and may Cydia rest in peace. It will forever make a lot of people very nostalgic (including me). It was a wonderful era. Thank you for everything jailbreak community ❤️

[Davee]

It will be good if a team of developers take cydia and update it like a cydia 2.0

[TheSkyWhale]

Geo, would you consider making a zebra vs sileo video, for us old cydia folk who now have to get with the times? Thanks for everything over the years. I don’t even know how long I’ve followed this channel. Ole FCE365 days

[GamesforCykits]

Yea it sucks man i miss it but what i miss more are the old JB dev teams like green p0sion and pineapple

[thesingularity]

Ok so what is the replacement for Cydia substrate, which is used with SLIVER to bypass icloud on Ipads?

[Markus-dj]

some video suggestions are how to set up iOS Xcode emulation so we could play around with iOS or how to make an application in Xcode or maybe some useful terminal commands

[arievixi]

I always follow and watch your videos. But still haven't found the bright spot of jailbreak😢

[soetgoete]

I still use it, have used it since it came out.

[MobileiRepair]

Hi brother do you have Tool for jailbreak old iOS 12 down on Windows?

[axelka]

I remember the times when I forgot my iCloud account and I had to bypass my iPhone 4. That is how I found you. Thanks for getting back my notifications then. :-)

[tommybtwo]

Cydia was awesome but the UI became very outdated and the alternatives like Sileo and Zebra are so much
more modern visually and blend more seamlessly into the existing UI on the iPhone including the App Store.

[June_]

u should cover side store, it supports up to ios 18

[Px]

Apt saurik repo is down you cant add it in sileo

[Markus-dj]

cydia being dead is sad but sileo works so much better thank you for explaining about ssv and how cydia cannot load anything now because of ssv I had a lot of confusion in that area and this video solved it thanks also does filza file manager wok on rootless jailbreaks like dopamine?

[Iamjrodriguez]

I remember calling Apple support because I couldn’t find it in the App Store, haha didn’t know it was a jailbreak

[thenerd__]

I remember my first time using Cydia on my iPod 5th Gen IOS 7.0 😢

[rainrelax]

I have Cydia and sileo but sileo now is having all the tweaks