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New The Sims 4 Update: Patch Notes (October 2nd, 2025)

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Day 0 Patch for Adventure Awaits is here, along with Base Game improvements!

EA and Maxis have released a brand new The Sims 4 Update across PC, Mac, Xbox and Playstation consoles. Both fixing some day 0 issues with the now newly released Sims 4 Adventure Awaits Expansion Pack and Base Game improvements. Such as lowering the Playground Objects limit from six to four.

Find everything that’s been fixed, improved and changed in the official Patch Notes below:

The Sims 4 Update Logo

The Day 0 Update

Installing the Latest Sims 4 Update

You can get the latest The Sims 4 Update on the following official launchers and platforms:

  • PC: EA App, Origin, Steam, Epic Games
  • Mac: Origin, Steam
  • Playstation: PS4 and PS5
  • Xbox: Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S

You can download the latest Sims 4 Update by checking for a Patch through the EA App, Steam or Epic Games launcher for Desktop. If you have Automatic Updates enabled the update will automatically download through your client program. In case your EA App is not working properly ensure you’ve cleared your app cache!

If you play The Sims 4 on Xbox Series X / S and Playstation 4 and 5 you can request a new update by checking for updates under The Sims 4 game in the Main Menu. If you’ve enabled automatic updates the Patch should download right away.

Having problems with updating your old Mods and Custom Content? See our guide on the 50/50 method!

The Sims 4 Update

Official Sims 4 Patch Notes

Simmers,

We’ve released a small patch to resolve the community reported issues of water damaged Plopsy listings & a tuning change to lower the required items for playground venues from 6 to 4. Thanks for your ongoing feedback.

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Source: EA Help

The Sims Direct on X

The update is around 600MB on PC / Mac.

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What’s your experience with downloading and installing the latest Sims 4 Update? Join the comments below and stay tuned for more Sims News and Updates!

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Reticulating splines as a webmaster for Sims Community over the last 12 years. You can find me here writing articles and doing reports on your favorite life sim games, among other things!

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Mandy
Mandy
21 days ago

How about all of my photos not turning black everytime i turn on the game? Spent time making family photos of birthdays, weddings, etc all for them to be gone???

Bugfixes
Bugfixes
21 days ago
Reply to  Mandy

Don’t you worry, there is a Sul Sul Mega Sims Team dedicated to bug fixes since May 2024, so expect the next update to see the San Myshuno Magnet of the “From the Forever Friends Event” fixed as it should say Mt. Komorebi instead.

The rest of bugs for a later date!

Melissa
Melissa
21 days ago
Reply to  Bugfixes

how are you going to reply but NOT answer the actual question? no one said anything about magnets. OUR PICTURES ARE TURNING BLACK AGAIN. that’s the issue here.

Mandy
Mandy
20 days ago
Reply to  Melissa

That’s my issue soooo oh well ‍♀️

Captree
Captree
20 days ago
Reply to  Mandy

How about you direct this anger and weird behavior at the Sims Team and not at an individual trying to keep you in the loop WHILE THEY DO NOT WORK FOR EA?
How are you gonna have such attitude in such a wrong place lmao.

Mandy
Mandy
20 days ago
Reply to  Captree

You know what’s weird behavior. You… lmao

Lotus
Lotus
19 days ago
Reply to  Captree

No, you’re weird. Go silence yourself instead of trying to silence others.

Mandy
Mandy
17 days ago
Reply to  Lotus

Make me loser

Alex
Alex
20 days ago
Reply to  Melissa

You do get that person DOESN’T work for EA or the Sims team right?….
They were telling you what EA is doing to fix it, which is nothing.

Martha Brady
Martha Brady
21 days ago

it’s not showing up the part where you say below

CuriousSimmer
CuriousSimmer
21 days ago

I HAVE to ask, where do you see these patch notes, because they are NOT on the official page, and I can not find them in the forums. In the future, could you at least link your sources?

Jan Tedford (silverjansims)
Jan Tedford (silverjansims)
21 days ago

I’ve been having problems when attempting to share my lots to the gallery so that I can move my households to my new laptop. I keep getting a server/timeout message with the sharing and/or saving the lot does not go through. However, rooms and households will share fine. It’s kind of a pain to have to share all rooms in a build for piecing the house back together. Hope this will be part of the next fixes.

giu
giu
21 days ago

can someone tell the sims team to please fix the issue of photos turning black , im so sick and tired of this happening ITS RUINING MY GAMEPLAY 🙂 yall dont get how hard it is to take specific pictures and then have them get ruining by turning black ?!?!?! i just want my pictures back thanks

Mandy
Mandy
20 days ago
Reply to  giu

Thank you!

Mads
Mads
20 days ago

After the update, my sims has got the strange habit of showering in their hats from their everyday outfit. Not sure if this one still accrues after the update, but my recent vampire sim also don’t change into the work outfit for the bodybuilding job, and heads out for the job only in his everyday trousers and shoes. ‍♂️

Jay
Jay
19 days ago
Reply to  Mads

Mine too and i still have problems with the hospital gown staying on after birth like after a shower it will go back to her everyday clothes but then if she sleeps or something she back in the gown

Erin
Erin
20 days ago

My game has crashed at least 4 times since thus update. I play on a PS4, so I don’t have mods.

Jay
Jay
19 days ago
Reply to  Erin

My game has done it too I am on a ps4 as well

Roxie Peyton
Roxie Peyton
20 days ago

I wish in build mode it was a little more realistic to real life

Danny Hetue
Danny Hetue
19 days ago

Any updates on the nudity underwear and bra default mode and server error preventing players from saving their house lots?

Rachel
Rachel
19 days ago

I was hoping this patch would fix this problem, but it didn’t. Everytime I change lots, auto lights resets, I no longer have leftovers in the fridge, university homework book vanishes, and I didn’t get the presentation boards for the classes. When I log into the game, their inventories will be missing several items (homework, drawing tablet, pictures, etc). My sims can also plant some items but not others.

Magnolia Hennessy
Magnolia Hennessy
19 days ago

My reference paining turned black.
My detective Sim can not make arrest.
The new child aspiration to listen music on stereo-doesn’t complete after 4 sims hours.Doesn’t matter if I change the channel etc.

Chivonne
Chivonne
18 days ago

My game will load past family selection but spin and game won’t go to anything, just spinning and words forever since this update

Heather
Heather
18 days ago

Can the game not show up the “There was an error on our end that caused it to fail” message everytime the game updates? I was LIVID the last time there was an update and it took 4 whole days for me to finally get the game working and now that it works again i now have to deal with this again. If you could offer up a cure and reason for this happening, please do so. I tried everything last time, and this time is no different from the last time and i dont even knwo how mine started working again last time but please i really like this game but its dysfunctionality at some times is the bane of my existence.

Riah
Riah
17 days ago

Is anybody else still having issues launching into the actual game to play or is it just me? If so, please tell me how to fix it…

Joseph
Joseph
15 days ago

Hopefully when Jared Kushner takes over all this stuff will be fixed.

Lea
Lea
3 days ago

My Sims won’t load at all since this last update. It gets to the resume game page, but then just keeps taking me to manage worlds every time I try to load the game. This is why I always refuse to update this game in the first place!