Using Cydia on your jailbroken iPhone

Pt. 3 of 5 | 2:28 |

How to jailbreak the iPhone and iPad

Wednesday August 11, 2010

When jailbreaking is completed, you'll find an icon for Cydia on the desktop of your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Cydia is your doorway to a world of cool programs that you won't find in the Apple App Store — apps that Apple won't allow into its store for whatever reason. You can find apps to

tether your iPhone

, regardless of whether your carrier allows it,

free iPhone ringtones

iPhone themes

and much, much more.

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Show Notes

- Cydia's icon will appear in the first open spot on your iPhone.

- If there are updates to Cydia, you'll see a number on the icon if you have that feature enabled on your iPhone.

- Tap the Cydia.

- Cydia is by Jay Freeman and his programming name is saurik.

- You can look at Featured Products, which we'll do in the next segment.

- Featured themes are also available.

- There's information about FAQ's, Root password, SSH and more.

- Along the bottom, there are icons you can tap.

- Sections shows you all of the available software broken down by category.

- Changes will show you programs that have any changes.

- Under Manage, you can manage programs you've installed, sources, and storage.

- You can tap Search and quickly find any program you're looking for.

- If you purchase programs from within Cydia, it always remembers so if you come back with a new iPhone, you can reinstall.

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