How to Use Cydia App Store iOS 10.2

Cydia App Store…

Do you have used Apple app store ever before? If your answer is yes, Cydia is similar to Apple app store. Cydia has it’s own store, where you can find jailbreak apps, tweaks, hacks, games and themes.


Best Cydia Sources: We have picked up must have top sources for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Every jailbreak user should have these sources.

Apple has imposed many restrictions to iOS device and app store. Useful tweaks and utilities that modify core features, get disapproved from Apple store. Such apps, tweaks and hacks are included in Cydia app store.


What is Jailbreak and how to do Jailbreak

Actually, there are a lot of restrictions that are imposed by Apple. You can’t use themes, tweaks and hacks. In simple words, you have to use iDevice in form of which Apple has provided you. You can’t tweak with it. You can’t redesign it, I mean use of themes, custom icon set, lockscreen etc.

Jailbreak removes all these restrictions and allows you to install Cydia apps, tweaks, hacks and themes. It allows you to install Cydia App store, an Apple App Store alternative.


How to Use Cydia: A Complete Walkthrough


There are a lot of things you have to do, if you have jailbreak your iPhone, iPod or iPad Air, Mini such as installing, updating or reinstalling. Suppose, you are getting Cydia errors such as size mismatch, installation error, crashing problem etc.

1 What is Cydia

There are thousands upon thousands tweaks, apps and hacks available on Cydia for free to download and use. Its a best Apple store alternative that has jailbreak apps and tweaks. You can’t install Cydia without jailbreak your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad Air, Mini whatever you have.

2 How to Install Cydia

It comes with Jailbreak, you just need to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and checkmark the option to install Cydia during jailbreak procedure, that’s it. However, if you have factory unlocked iDevice or somehow, you don’t have Cydia installer, you need to manually install it using Cydia.deb file.

3 How to Update

Once you have successfully installed it, there has been a lot of work to be done. You need to regularly update packages. Normally, you get the notifications about each packages and when you confirm, it will be upgraded automatically over the air.

Suppose, you are getting errors or you have upgraded to next iOS firmware, most probably your packages will be uninstalled automatically. Here you need to update it manually.

4 How to Reinstall

In many cases, I have seen that its impossible to fix the errors. Many times, your Cydia apps crash again and again and hard to fix it. In such case, you need to reinstall it.

I would recommend that you should take a backup, before any upgrade or reinstallation.

5 Take a Backup Before Each Update

There are numerous tweaks that provides backup solution. Suppose, your Cydia doesn’t working anymore, there are couple of apps such as iFunBox, HipStore, Kuaiyong and many other PC apps that offer backup installed apps.

If you can access Cydia, install backup apps and Save your SHSH blobs with all installed packages. Its most recommended. PKGBackup is a wonderful backup tweak that offers ultimate backup solution.

6 What Are Sources & Repos

Actually, there are a lot of developers who develop apps, tweaks and themes. They store those apps in particular repo source. These sources called repositories. Each repository contains a large number of apps, Actually, it depends on that repository.

Such as hackulo.us, xsellize, BigBoss, Modmyi and many more. Cydia.hackulo.us has been shut down that had Installous app. However, there are a lot more sources and repos that are still active and providing a great collection of games and tweaks.

7 How to Add Sources

Cydia already comes with top repo sources such as BigBoss, Modmyi etc. Suppose, you want to add more repo sources, you can launch it. Tap on Manage, Sources, Edit and then tap on Add.

Type repo source address and done. Now you can search that repo for tweaks and hacks that are available on that repo.

8 How to Install Apps


Its very easy task. Now Don’t tell me that you have taken a training to use iPhone for the first time. Its something what we learn with the nature. You just need to tap on sources, choose one of the top source and tap on it. Now search your desire app. Choose it from result and tap on install button. That’s it.

  • Use iFunBox to install Cydia apps from computer.
  • iFiles is a best file manager for iPhone, iPad Air, iPad Mini and iPod Touch.

Cydia Packages comes in deb packages, you can install these deb files directly from PC too. PC tools will install bunch of deb packages at once in your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.


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