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.
Step Three Select the Sections tab.
Step Four Tap to choose System from the list of sections.
Step Five Select iFile from the list of packages.
Step Six Press the Install button at the top right hand corner of the screen.
Step Seven Press Confirm to begin installation.
Step Eight Tap the large Return to Cydia button once installation has completed.
Step Nine Press the Home button and launch Safari from the SpringBoard.
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!)
Step Eleven Tap the Open in "iFile" button at the top right.
Step Twelve Once iFile opens the archive, tap the Unarchiver button. Then tap done when the extraction is complete.
Step Thirteen Tap to open the Cydia Icon All Devices folder that was created.
Step Fourteen Press the Edit button and select all the Icon files listed.
Step Fifteen Tap the Clipboard icon at the bottom right and then choose Copy/Link. Tap Done.
Step Sixteen Tap the back button at the top left until your reach root ('/'), then tap Applications, then Cydia.app.
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".
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.
Step Nineteen Once your phone reboots you will have a nice new Cydia icon!
***Thanks to iHaz3 for the new icon design!
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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.
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???
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
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.