A lot of features of Cydia are not working properly and Saurik is nowhere to be seen. If you want some of its older functionality back, you can try installing the tweak given below that enables purchases.
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Why doesn’t Cydia support purchases on iOS 11?
As you already know, Electra jailbreak does not have the official version of Cydia. It’s a hacked-up version that contains only a few basic components.
Saurik has mentioned quite a few times that he doesn’t consider Electra to be a complete jailbreak. Unless Saurik updates Substrate for iOS 11, it’s unlikely he will open purchases for Cydia.
Until that happens, you can try some “hacks” to open tweak purchases again.
For example, you can spoof a few system files to get payments working again. However, this method is a bit risky and can cause ruin your jailbreak completely.
Moreover, it doesn’t work for iPhone X since you can’t spoof its device ID.
As a result, Cydia is unable to identify it since it comes loaded with iOS 11 out-of-the-box and only devices that had iOS 10 can work with this method.
This is where this new method comes in. It spoofs web requests from Cydia and allows you to buy Cydia packages just like iOS 10 users.
This spoofing method also works for iPhone X users.
Enabling Cydia purchases on Electra jailbreak
Step 1 Open Cydia.
Step 2 Go to Sources and tap Edit > Add.
Step 3 Add this repository – randompacks.yourepo.com
Step 4 Go to the “All Packages” section of this repo and install MakeCydiaBuyAgain tweak.
Step 5 Once you install this tweak on your device, you can purchase any tweak from Cydia. I will be demonstrating the payment procedure with OLEDification Cydia tweak.
Step 6 Tap on the Purchase Product button to go to the payment page.
Alternatively, you can also contact the developer of the tweak to purchase his tweak.
You can pay the tweak developers via PayPal or any other payment method but that transaction won’t go through Cydia.
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I added the repo, but it shows up empty .. :/
It still doesnt allow me to purchase
Considering how the “Repo” is invalid, I say this tutorial was not a success.
Hope to see changes soon though,
XoXo.
Thanks for the heads-up. I will update the link asap.
Much appreciation to you, keep up the hard work!:) ❤️
Thank you, Marty.
The repo can not be found, a new link?
The repository was banned, you can download it from this link – https://github.com/JakeAi/MakeCydiaBuyAgain
Nooope, not working as well.