How to get started and use Cydia

Now when you're sitting there with your jailbroken iPhone or Ipod touch and don't know what to do with Cydia, let me show you how to get started.

1. If this is the first time you open Cydia, the screen will look a little bit different. On the screen you're looking at, choose the option that says "normal user" or something, don't choose programmer or the other one. When you've done that, you will see the screen on this picture. This is the homepage of Cydia. From here you can navigate to the newest apps or most popular and so on. What you really need to look at is the tabs att the bottom of the page, which will navigate you to different things.

2. If you press the tab on the right you will come to the "sections" part. Here you will see a list of all the things you can find in Cydia. For example you can find themes, programmes, games, pictures, addons, everything. Just scroll down and make your way through, you will easily find what you search for.

3. Next, you will see the "changes". This is only interesting if you already have some stuff installed from Cydia already, because this is, as it says, the changes that are made to the things you have installed. Basically it's just about upgrading your things to later versions.

4. Now we're at the "Manage". Here you've got 3 choices, "Packages", "Source", and "Storage". Packages and storage are easy to understand, it already says what they do. Sources might be a bit tricky though, but it's used to , for example, get the very popular and useful app Installous, which I will show you how to do in my next tutorial. It works like that you enter an own adress or scroll down the already existing sources andthen install programmes by choosing a source. The adress you enter will tell Cydia what to look for.

5. The last tab is called "Search" and that's exactly what you use it for. you search for the things you're looking for in Cydia.

Thanks for reading, I hope it was helping. If you have any questions, leave them as a comment. In next tutorial, I will show you how to get Installous and how to use it.