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How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Posted December 26, 2013 at 8:50pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to change your Cydia icon to one that matches the look of iOS 7. As you may know, saurik recently updated the design of Cydia to match Apple's new operating system. As of yet the icon has not received a similar design and thus numerous redesigns have been posted by members of the community. Here's how to install them!

Note, on this tutorial we will be using iFile. Alternatively, you can navigate to Root/Applications/Cydia.app using iFunbox, or iExplorer. You can also SSH [Windows] [Mac]. Note that before you can use iFunbox or iExplorer on iOS 7 you must install afc2add from Cydia! Otherwise your device will not be seen! The evasi0n7 jailbreak for some reason did not include this package automatically.

Step One
Jailbreak your device. You can find instructions on how to do that here.


Step Two
Launch Cydia from your Springboard.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Three
Select the Sections tab.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Four
Tap to choose System from the list of sections.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Five
Select iFile from the list of packages.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Six
Press the Install button at the top right hand corner of the screen.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Seven
Press Confirm to begin installation.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Eight
Tap the large Return to Cydia button once installation has completed.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Nine
Press the Home button and launch Safari from the SpringBoard.
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Step Ten
Navigate to https://www.iclarified.com/files/cydia/cydia-icon.zip. This will download an unofficial icon created by iHaz3. You can find several other icon designs listed here. Reddit users D4RKL0RD198 and diegoisawesome provided zipped up packages as alternatives. An iClarified commenter also pointed us to this nice icon design as well (Thanks!)
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Eleven
Tap the Open in "iFile" button at the top right.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Twelve
Once iFile opens the archive, tap the Unarchiver button. Then tap done when the extraction is complete.
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Step Thirteen
Tap to open the Cydia Icon All Devices folder that was created.
How to Change Your Cydia Icon for iOS 7

Step Fourteen
Press the Edit button and select all the Icon files listed.
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Step Fifteen
Tap the Clipboard icon at the bottom right and then choose Copy/Link. Tap Done.
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Step Sixteen
Tap the back button at the top left until your reach root ('/'), then tap Applications, then Cydia.app.
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Step Seventeen
Scroll down the "Icon" files and tap one. Rename it to end with ".bak" then tap Done. Repeat this for each of the files that begin with "Icon".
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Step Eighteen
Once all the files have been renamed tap Edit. Then tap the Clipboard icon at the bottom right hand corner. Choose Paste from popup buttons. Then tap Done and restart your phone.
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Step Nineteen
Once your phone reboots you will have a nice new Cydia icon!
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***Thanks to iHaz3 for the new icon design!
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jhkhlkh
jhkhlkh - December 28, 2013 at 4:32pm
after making this can i uninstall ifile ?
essa
essa - May 28, 2014 at 10:50am
essa i cidI
omar.nsy
omar.nsy - December 28, 2013 at 11:58am
I think we should wait official Cydia icon.
Austin633
Austin633 - December 28, 2013 at 9:01am
I didn't know Cydia was stupid. And why are people asking about ios 8? iPhone 6? Fuck, be happy with what your getting. My 5S is looking nice with f.lux right now and have patience young jailbreak grasshoppers, if you wanna erase cydia cause you can't get outta a bootloop... Restore your phone and put it on craigslist and buy and android.
Austin633
Austin633 - December 28, 2013 at 8:57am
Erase stupid Cydia?
Rocko
Rocko - December 27, 2013 at 9:16pm
^ is this guy for real?
Anthony
Anthony - December 27, 2013 at 6:12pm
Help ! I tried this and after I rebooted my phone Cydia dissapeared and has come back yet
Jim
Jim - December 27, 2013 at 4:42pm
Guys I file works for all versions of ios even ios 7 It says it doesn't but it does
Castro
Castro - December 27, 2013 at 6:12am
Thanks shiddhart, I will try
Siddharth
Siddharth - December 27, 2013 at 6:08am
OR. you can install hackyouriphone repo. It also has an ios7 updated icon. Easy to install. And definitely better than this icon
Castro
Castro - December 27, 2013 at 5:17am
Does ifile support ios 7.0.3 coz it say this does not support your ios
dheerajverma143
dheerajverma143 - December 27, 2013 at 5:07am
nice :) thnkz
Icon designer
Icon designer - December 27, 2013 at 3:17am
Get this it is much better designed by: Waseem Dahman Links: http://dribbble.com/shots/1356920-Cydia-iOS7?list=users
DarkKent
DarkKent - December 27, 2013 at 1:29am
The old icon looks great on iOS 7. nah this is one i won't be changing. and i hope saurik doesn't change it in an update.
Ben
Ben - December 27, 2013 at 1:01am
All this work to make an icon look ugly.
Chinh
Chinh - December 26, 2013 at 11:22pm
Hackyouriphone has a quick install for an updated icon.... 1 step vs 8 steps
odedoo1
odedoo1 - December 26, 2013 at 11:12pm
iFile works just fine on 64bit devices and a few more tweaks try first before u talk about things u have no idea and soon enough mobile substrate will be ready it's what Jay is working on right now, I just don't know why anybody would like to change the beautiful Cydia icon to a cartoon one anyway???
Toto
Toto - December 26, 2013 at 10:07pm
They forgot to mention jailbreaking any 64bit device is worthless at this time, nothing is going to work until they update mobilesubstrate for iphone5s. Frak
Tetrism
Tetrism - December 26, 2013 at 10:17pm
Basically 64bit causes nothing but trouble. No benefits, no speedboost, just the architecture of the codes. And jailbreak is useless.
Georgie
Georgie - December 26, 2013 at 10:26pm
Did you even bother to test it, rather than posting your useless message? I tried different apps from Cydia and they work on my 5s.
DarkKent
DarkKent - December 27, 2013 at 1:27am
the tweaks i need work fine on my 5s... U probably aint even got a 5s
Tetrism
Tetrism - December 26, 2013 at 10:07pm
Indeed. I rather download cydia icon for ios 7 patch from hackyouriphone repo. Easy download, easy patch. Done
Jerry-Fritz Kraut
Jerry-Fritz Kraut - December 26, 2013 at 9:34pm
Isn't the whole point of Jailbreaking iOS 7 to get RID of the ugly icons? Why Jailbreak to make it worse? The iOS 7 icons are the ugliest ever designed. They look like Android's default icons.
2f8a82b
2f8a82b - December 26, 2013 at 9:06pm
You have to restore uour iphone to remove jailbreak buddy. Sorry
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