The iOS 12 A12 Jailbreak is now out in the form of Chimera. As most have already noticed though, the Chimera Jailbreak doesn’t install Cydia. Instead Coolstar and the electra team behind Chimera opted to bundle it with their own Cydia alternative dubbed Sileo. Furthermore up until today there was seemingly no way to replace Sileo with Cydia and the Electra team didn’t address the subject. In light of this, some jailbreak fans became outraged that they were forced to give up Cydia. However don’t fret, we now have a solution to get Cydia on the A12 Jailbreak! This guide will walk you through the simple process.
In addition to watching the above video, the following (simple) steps will guide you through the undertaking. However if you own an A12 device (iPhone XS/XS Max/XR or iPad Pro 2018) that isn’t jailbroken, follow one of our two tutorials to do so:
[adinserter block=”4″]With that prerequisite out of the way, let’s get started!
Step 1: Launch Sileo, navigate to sources and add the following repository:
[adinserter block=”5″]https://diatr.us/chicydia/
Step 2: Refresh your available sources to grab the packages on the aforementioned repo. To do this, simply pull down on the Sources page.
Step 3: Install Cydia for Chimera/Electra from the repo.
Note: This will remove ‘Cydia Compatibility Package’, which is expected behavior.
Step 4: Close Sileo and launch Cydia. Disregard the warning pop-up informing you about partially installed packages.
Step 5: Navigate to Sources > Edit > Add and add the following repo to your sources:
[adinserter block=”6″]https://repo.chimera.sh
Step 6 (REQUIRED): Search for Sileo (Beta) and uninstall it. If and when you want Sileo back, re-install it through the same source.
[adinserter block=”7″]Important Note: Do not install the Cydia Compatibility Package from the Chimera repo. If you want, you can remove the Chimera repo to get rid of it. It will look like this (again don’t upgrade):
Once you have Cydia again, we’ll need to install a few things to get things functioning (better). First, add the following sources inside Cydia > Sources > Edit > Add:
https://repo.pixelomer.com
http://rpetri.ch/repo/
Next, install the following tweaks inside Cydia:
Mandatory:
1. Cydia Universal
2. PreferenceLoader
Optional:
3. Flame
4. SwipeForMore
5. WishDia
6. TweakCount2
7. TranslucentCydia
8. Renovare
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Installed the repo but Cydia installer isn’t showing what now?
yes me too
Pull down to manually refresh sources. It should appear. We just confirmed it's working.
it doesn't show upon refresh
Use Cydia Universal
No, it's not there - manually refreshed, etc -nada.... Possible they removed it?
Remove and then add again with https:// in front of the URL. The article has been updated (copy and paste)
How to uninstall cydia from sileo now?
I didn't install cydia installer, i installed cydia universal on that repo, and i have cydia and everything, and i didn't use that snapback too. But i just want to know how can i get rid of cydia now and just have sileo like on the beginning?
I would like to have the same as u, but seems like no clue, now Sileo and Cydia both not working after restore rootfs and re-jb again also do not hav Sileo
Where can I get Cydia?
It is very disapointed that the iOS 11.1.2 jailbreak users are complete forgotten. I was not able to update and I’m stuck on iOS 11! Can I ask, to not lost the run, is it perhaps better to update iPhone SE to latest iOS Apple update? Perhaps is there spoken for new jailbreaks. I’m Dutch and to follow continue the jailbreak platform is not easygoing. There is in Belgium not an jailbreak climate. Hope on some advise. Luc Rik Vlaemynck
Hi dear I have problem with Cydia
I installed Cydia and I add sources
I have one Upgrade I try to make this upgrade
But he gave me this message (Running Debian Packager) Refuse to upgrade
And when I try to install Source he give me this Error always ( Undetermined Error )
Thanks for your help
I don’t get Cydia installer after adding the repo, and when I try to download Cydia Universal, I keep getting “Error: expected size xxxxx, got 0 instead”.
You've got to refresh and then install from the repo. Cydia Universal is installed after Cydia Installer.
It doesn’t give me the option to get cydiainstaller even after adding the sources and refreshing.
ya hice eso y no funciona
@pixelomer stated: "Cydia Universal was removed from the repository because of some bugs that I am unable I'm unable to fix and because of the high amount of downloads (more than 20000). I can't handle that much load."
any new source for it?
The Cydia is not on the source anymore, any other way we can get Cydia install?
The Cydia universal was remove ,is there another way to get cydia??