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Oh yea. Oh yea, just installing apps. All kinds of apps. Ah somebody stop me. Somebody
come and stop me! So you've just jailbroken your device and you want to know more about
Cydia. What it is, how to use it? Well today I'm going to show you in this Cydia edition
episode of "What is?" Okay so what is Cydia? Cydia is basically the app store for jailbroken
devices. Okay, it's the secondary app store where you can get all kinds of third-party
custom apps after you jailbreak. And jailbreaking is the only way to get Cydia on your device.
Cydia is where you download, install and manage everything on your jailbroken device. Cydia
is the only visual difference between a non-jailbroken device and a jailbroken device. The non-jailbroken
device does not have Cydia. The jailbroken device does. That's the only visual difference
to a new jailbroken user. A good analogy is to look at your device as a town, and this
town has a mall. And this mall is where you get everything that you can put on your device
and that mall is the Apple App Store. And when you jailbreak your device it's like getting
a second mall put in that town. So now you have the old mall (the Apple App Store) and
the new mall, Cydia, where you can get everything that the old mall does not offer. So that's
basically what Cydia is. It's like a secondary app store and it's only for jailbroken users.
So now we have an idea of what Cydia is. Now let's go into it and see how it works and
how to use it. When you first open up Cydia you'll see the home screen, and this 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. And 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
account - your Cydia account. Your Cydia account is authenticated through either Google or
Facebook. So if you have a Google account or Facebook account you can go ahead and authenticate
it through Cydia and you can measure your account from there. That way if you buy certain
apps through Cydia you will always have that in your account so you don't have to buy it
again when you get a new device. The second area of Cydia is the Sections area. This is
basically the categories of everything that's offered through Cydia - all the apps, all
the tweaks, all the themes. It's listed by categories, and it's a long list so I usually
don't spend my time in here. But just know the Sections is the categories of everything
that's offered by Cydia. Let's go ahead and go over how to install an app or tweak or
anything from Cydia. So you're at the sections, you click on a Section and you tap on an app
or tweak that you find. It brings you to the app's page. If you tap on the Install button
on the top right you can install from there. And you can see more details about the app
such as screenshots and the developer. Moving along to the Changes section, this 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. So it's basically like the Updates section in the
regular Apple App Store. The Installed section shows you every app that is installed on your
device through Cydia. And here you can reinstall or remove any app by tapping on it and clicking
the Modify button in the top right hand corner. The Installed section is basically where you
manage all your apps that are installed on your device via Cydia. So this brings us to
the Sources section, and Sources are also called Repo's or repositories. Sources, repo,
repositories are all the same thing. Cydia comes with default sources so let's go back
to our mall analogy. So if Cydia is a mall well the sources are the individual stores
within that mall. Cydia comes with default stores installed where you can get almost
any app. But if there's an app or tweak 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 source. And last but not least we have the Search
area, and this is where you can search for any app or tweak within Cydia, within all
of your sources. So it searches any source that you have in Cydia, it searches that source
for whatever you're searching for. So this is where I install most of my apps because
if you know the name you can just search for it. And it does a great job at indexing the
sources that you have so you can find that app really quickly. And another thing about
apps, if it's in blue that means it's a paid app and you can purchase it. Cydia accepts
two different forms of payments. You can pay either through Amazon or PayPal. And buying
apps through Cydia is as safe as buying through any other website online. So if you buy from
eBay you can buy from Cydia. So 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
the heck out of your device. Make sure you subscribe to my channel. I'll be coming out
with videos over the best tweaks for your jailbroken device. I hope this video helped.
I hope you learned a little bit more about Cydia. Thank you so much for watching. Keep
having fun out there. I'll talk to you guys and girls later.