Cydia is the innovative installer for your iPhone. You must be wondering you have default installer in your iPhone. So why to bother about cydia? Well, cydia is the new iPhone installer which is advanced packager and repository manager. Let us have a brief discussion about cydia.

You must have installer.app in your iPhone in order to use cydia. If you do not already have one then add http://apptapp.saurik.com/ as a source to Installer and install the package “Cydia Installer”. This will install cydia in the iPhone and you can start using it. Alternatively you can install cydia by launching quickpwn. This is a quick and easy way. Cydia is similar to installer.app but it has many improvements in functionality and organization of different applications as compared to the general installer. The main features you get from cydia are:

1.   You can find the number of apps available in each category in the iPhone.

2.   It is possible to view the functionality of each app that you are going to install. Besides there are descriptions briefly about the application.

3.   Update your apps in no time and see latest upgradations available for a particular application.

4.   See the currently installed apps and search them by name.

5.   Easily manage and customize your favorite apps.

6.   Install new themes and modify the existing ones in a jailbroken iPhone.

Currently Cydia is updating frequently and adding new contents. So in a few days cydia will be fully customized and you can take many benefits from it.