What is and how to download Cydia on your iPhone or iPad

Have you heard about Cydia but don't know exactly what it is? Today in Applelised we teach you what is and how to download Cidya on your iOS device.

What is Cydia

Cydia is the largest third-party software installer available for the iOS platform. As you all know, iOS is a closed system that does not allow modifications, that is, you cannot install anything that has not passed through Apple's verification before. The great advantage is the security that this concept brings to our devices avoiding viruses and attacks However, there are many users who from the beginning have been complaining precisely about the few possibilities of modification or customization offered by Apple. In fact, many of the improvements that the company has included in iOS in recent years have their origin in Cydia, a clear example of this is the iOS Control Center.

Based on this, dfrom its beginnings Cydia presents itself as a software provider to modify iOS, thus covering its "shortcomings" but in no case offer pirated applications, something that nevertheless occurs with the disappeared Installous o vShare among others.

As a curiosity, the name of Cydia has its origin in the name of the common worm that feeds on apples, Cydia pomonella, thus alluding to the fact that Cydia is an application that gets inside Apple devices and “takes advantage” of them to reach their full potential.

So, the first thing you should know is that to download Cydia you must first Jailbreak your iOS device In other words, you must sacrifice security for the benefit of a greater degree of customization of your terminal, making the decision entirely yours.

How to download / install Cydia on my iDevice

For download Cydia You will have to Jailbreak your device, it is an inseparable condition so it depends on how far the Jailbreak geniuses have reached, bearing in mind that it is not always available for the latest version of iOS released by Apple. In fact, it seems that there are already great advances and Achieved Jailbreak on iOS 8.

Currently the Jailbreak is carried out through evasi0n being cCompatible with all iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and iPad mini models from iOS 7.0 to iOS 7.0.6 (iOS 7.1.1 does NOT support Jailbreak at the moment).

In the following video the user maudricio It perfectly explains the process to follow:

How Cydia works

El how cydia works it is quite similar to the App Store. Most tweaks are free, some totally independent and others dependent on other applications as they implement features and / or functions that they lack.

By default Cydia already comes with a series of repositories (repos) where the different apps, tweaks, and others are hosted, but we can also expand this list by using other repos. For it:

• We access Cydia on our iOS device
• We access Manage and click on the Fuentes / Sources option (in the buttons at the bottom)
• Click on the Edit button (top right)
• Click on the Add button
• In the new window we write the address of the repo that we want to add.
• Click on Add Source or Add Source and the download will begin.

For download and install a tweak from Cydia We just have to look for it in the integrated search engine, click on it when we find it and click Install / Install to start the installation (in many cases after installing a tweak it will be necessary to restart the device.

Here we leave you some of the best repos for Cydia that you can add:

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• http://cydia.hackulo.us/
• http://repo.insanelyi.com/
• http://Cydia.xsellize.com/
• http://sinfuliphonerepo.com/
• http://cydia.iphonecake.com/
• http://yourcydiarepo.org/
• http://repo.hackyouriphone.org/
• http://iHacksRepo.com/
• http://clubifone.org/repo/
• http://apps.iphoneislam.com/
• http://iphoneame.com/repo/
• http://repo.biteyourapple.net/
• http://repo.woowiz.net/
• http://idwaneo.org/repo/
• http://repo.biteyourapple.net/
• http://repo.icausefx.com/
• http://apt.macosmovil.com/
• http://i.danstaface.net/deb/
• http://theiphonespotrepo.net/apt/
• http://repo.modyouri.com/
• http://repo.benm.at/
• http://p0dulo.com/
• http://repo.bingner.com
• http://cydevicerepo.com
• http // repovip.com
• http://repocydios.com/
• http://h7v.org
• http://ihackstore.com/repo/

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We hope that this tutorial has been useful to you and do not forget that you have many more tips, aids and tutorials at your disposal in our Tutorials section.