What is Cydia? How to Use Cydia After Jailbreaking

What is Cydia? How to use Cydia tutorial

So you've just jailbroken your device and want to know more about Cydia. In this video I'll explain what Cydia is and how to use Cydia so you can customize your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch!

Cydia is basically the App Store for a jailbroken device. It's like the secondary App Store where you can get third-party custom apps after you jailbreak. Jailbreaking is the only way to get Cydia on your iOS device. Cydia is where you download, install, and manage everything for your jailbroken device.

A good analogy is to look at your device as a town, and this town has a mall. This "mall" is where you get everything that you can put on your device and that mall is the Apple App Store. When you jailbreak your device it's like getting an extra mall put in that town. So now you have the old mall (the Apple App Store) and the new mall (Cydia). Cydia is where you can get everything that the old mall does not offer.

The Cydia app's home screen has all kinds of different information and you can see a list of featured and popular apps for jailbroken devices that you can get through Cydia. It also has a User Guide section where you can learn more about Cydia and jailbreaking. Also from the home screen you can manage your Cyda account.

The Sections area lists the categories of everything that's offered through Cydia -- all the apps, all the tweaks, and all the themes. To install an app or tweak or theme from Cydia just tap on a Section, then tap on an app and tap the Install button on the top right.

The Changes section is where you can see all the upgrades and updates for all your apps that are offered by your sources that are installed on your device. It's basically like the Updates section in the regular Apple App Store.

The Installed section is where you manage all your apps that are installed on your device via Cydia. Here you can reinstall or remove any app by tapping on it and clicking the Modify button in the top right hand corner.

A Source is also called a Repo or repository. If Cydia is a "mall" then the Sources are the individual stores within that mall. Cydia comes with default Sources installed where you can get almost any app. But if there's an app out there that comes from a different source you can add it within the Sources section. Sources are basically the host of every app that you can install. It's where you download and install the apps from. So whatever source you have in Cydia you can get any app from that repo.

The Search area is where you can search for any app or tweak or theme within Cydia. It searches any repo that you have in Cydia. If the app is in blue text that means it's a paid app. Black text means it's free. Cydia accepts two different forms of payments, Amazon or PayPal.

Those are all the basic things you need to know about Cydia to get you up and running and installing apps and tweaks and themes and customizing your iPhone, iPad, or iPod!

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What is Cydia? How to Use Cydia After Jailbreaking

[Lavamar]

In your mall analogy Cydia is more like the black market.😂

[sidiqnew_world]

i have never found someone explaining about cydia like this fellow, thanks i have gained that knowledge i wanted keep it up

[joshuacortez]

Your quality of information is just excellent! We literally use your videos on military meetings to suggest which devices are best for military personal and family memebers! You are like the unofficial spokesperson for devices! Oh behalf of the army, thank you for working hard for great quality videos!!

[jakegutteridge]

Will this mess up my device?
Can I restore/factory reset my device after it's been jailbroken?

[dansh.r]

When you jailbreak, you can download any paid apps for free?

[shawnhalfpenny]

I'm an iOS noob so this is very informative. I'm thinking of jailbreaking an old iPad 4 (iOS 10.3.4) with hopes of finding a browser that will allow me to log into Facebook (don't need the FB app). Am I dreaming? Thanks!

[oneshotxix]

The waterboy would say "look mama.. Its the devil!!" To his bama shirt lol

[talhamalik]

Its like Root How we do It To Android Devices So We install apps.

[NamelessGod]

How do I connect to stuff like Instagram on my jailbroken device? It says it cannot locate the server...

[fahimmohamed]

Hey man you are very funny and you look exactly like actor OWEN WILSON.i don't know when I see this video I feel like Owen Wilson is talking. Anyways interesting and with good information.thanks today I learnt what CYDIA 😊👍✌️

[ahmadkamboh]

applications that i installed from cydia are not showing on my home screen. what should i do to access them whenever i want to use them?

[divadgaming]

For everyone who don't know how to install Cydia here is some stips... first go to the page : Pangu Jailbreak Tool. But before you start the jailbreaking you need itunes installed on your computer. If you have itunes on your computer.. you need to blug your iphone into your computer. Ones you do that, you can start the Jailbreak, and follow it stips. Don't worry it's easy as reading this comment..
Your Welcome. ;)

[ItzGoldfish]

he should of not conpared Cydia too a mall... he should of campared it too the Black Marked... LOL

[rykello]

I have cydia but it doesn't look like that on my phone is it truly jailbroken???

[chivalrous_chevy]

Lol dude you're crazy, that's why I subbed.

[TEENASSASSIN]

i need help, i installed cydia on my ipad just as normal, when it was done i clicked on the cydia app, then it said preparing file system, so waited for it to finish and it said it would close, when it was done it took me to the screen where you see the apple logo when you turn it on after power off, i went back to the app and it said prepareing file system again for like 2 senconds then went back to the same screen, i powered off then off and still the same! could i have some help please?

[altafhooda]

Thank you for your thorough information on Cydia. I have a jailbroken iPad 9.3.5. I was able to download whatsap++ but I could not find it on my homescreen. The app is in the Cydia downloaded section, but not on my ipad homescreen. Can you help me?

[jamalthousand]

Thanks for this video I just got a iPhone and I didn't know what jailbreaking was

[kianajoymarte]

Can u out post a video of how to install cydia

[arkpheonix]

You forgot to mention that you have to pay to download the cydia installer to download apps