The Sims™ 4

Update 9/22/2026PC: 1.128.90.1030 / Mac: 1.128.90.1230Console: Version 2.39 Sul Sul, Simmers!This month, we’re delivering a hefty Quality of Life (QoL) update, influenced directly by your feedback in our Discord Dev Q&As, Reddit, and via top-voted issues on EA Forums.Our biggest focus for this patch is all about Sim Autonomy. We’ve made dozens of tweaks to help your Sims act more logically and feel more realistic. Whether it's making eye contact during conversations, or washing their hands in the actual bathroom sink instead of trekking all the way to the kitchen, your Sims are about to make better choices. We’ve also tuned and balanced relationship autonomy for the Lovestruck and Growing Together expansion packs, so that Family Dynamics and Romantic Satisfaction feel more in line with player expectations.Alongside improved autonomy, we’ve addressed top causes of crashes to improve game stability, so read on for more information on those updates.Lastly, we’re absolutely thrilled to include a special delivery for the younger members of your households! This update introduces a brand-new collection of Children Items into the Base Game. As part of our ongoing effort to celebr

TL;DR:Improved Autonomy: Focus on improving Sims' autonomous behavior, including Sims maintaining eye contact during chats, using bathroom sinks instead of kitchen sinks, and low-energy Sims no longer waking up to do random tasks.Bug Fixes & Stability: 95+ bug fixes including 10 significant crash and stability improvements, top community issues from the EA Forums like Married Sims reverting to partners, and Sims getting stuck in interaction queues.Relationship Balancing: Tuning to Lovestruck (slower romantic decay, no satisfaction changes for inactive households) and Growing Together (improving dynamic frequency and making low-compatibility Sims realistically avoid one another).Looking Ahead: Our October Base Game update will shift its focus toward Food, Dining, and Drink improvements. Hi Simmers!Welcome to the Laundry List, where we share the fixes coming in our next game update on September 22.This update releases with 95+ bug fixes! Plus, following our Sims autonomy improvements earlier this year, we’re continuing to improve Sims autonomy. We’ve updated autonomous behaviors, focused on Sims interacting, and tuned a few relationship-themed features so your gameplay feels

Update 8/‌25/‌2026 PC: 1.127.41.1030 / Mac: 1.127.41.1230 Console: 2.38 Sul sul,With this update we are bringing improvements to your Marketplace browsing experience. Previously, Marketplace images were downloaded every time you browsed. Now, they’re cached after the first download, so we’ll only download images that are new or have changed. Along with performance improvements, Create a Sim (CAS) is getting some stylish additions, including new clothing especially designed to celebrate Sims of every size, plus an out-of-this-world hairstyle. And of course, we are bringing some important bug fixes with this update.-The Sims Team What’s New? Image CacheThe new Image Cache looks to improve loading times and reduce downloading of images across the Marketplace on subsequent visits, reducing the time needed to do a little window shopping or picking up that new Maker Pack you see everyone talking about.If you run into any issues with Marketplace images, you can manually clear the image cache by opening the cheat console and running the cheat command:clearonlinethumbnailcache trueWhile our PlayStation and XBOX Simmers can’t peek under the hood at the cache directly, on PC/Mac you can view

Sul Sul, Simmers! We’ve got an update for you today that covers Autosave and Marketplace, alongside a few other fixes from community reports. As always, thanks for playing, building, and creating in The Sims 4!The Sims 4 Dev Team Memory Boost\EA Forums] Thank you to everyone who shared save files. While this patch doesn't include additional changes for this issue, testing on player-submitted saves confirmed that Memory Boost resolves a memory-related crash that could occur when traveling after loading a save, though longer load times may still occur and similar but separate issues continue to be investigated in their own threads. Autosave & Save Reminder Updates & FixesThe Save Reminder Frequency Default is now set to be “Every 2 Hours” instead of “Off.”There is now more consistent visual feedback that an Autosave is occurring when exiting Build Mode or Traveling.We’ve addressed some issues where Autosave and Save Reminder timers would reset when traveling, causing them to not match the selected timing option. \EA Forums] We addressed an issue where manual saves could inadvertently override each other. This was happening when loading an Autosave Slot of a previously pl