The Sims Mobile is pulling the plug in the coming hours.
In a surprising announcement from EA and Firemonkeys team, The Sims Mobile game for iOS and Androids will be shutting down completely. And as we learn from the full announcement, it’ll be completely delisted in a matter of few hours by October 21st, 2025 from the official app stores.
What started as a promising development from the Maxis team at Redwood City turned into unstabile maintenance and low-effort updates at Firemonkeys.
Of course, it seems that the full focus and budget has been given to The Sims FreePlay team which has been operating for almost 15 years now with constant new updates and improvements. In the beginning of this year the game has gotten a significant visual upgrade to enhance the lighting and texture features to modernize the look of the game.
The Sims Mobile, however, has always gotten a short end of the stick from the development budget. Offering its players only reruns of previous events and in-app purchases that cost an arm and a leg.
The Shutdown Roadmap of The Sims Mobile
As announced in the official blog by The Sims Mobile team, the game will first get a new update on October 20th, 2025 that will remove the ability to make any in-app purchases and virtual currencies. Just a day after on October 21st, 2025 the game will be removed completely from the Google Play (Android) and App Store (iOS). Players who have downloaded the game before the removal on smartphone stores will get to play it for a few more months.
The Sims Mobile players will get to enjoy a limited two week period from January 6th, 2026 when all premium Create A Sim and Build Mode items will become available for free. Finally, on January 20th, 2026, the game’s servers will be shut down completely.
See the key dates and information about the app’s gradual shutdown below:
Key Dates and What’s Happening
October 20, 2025 – New update!
The final update for The Sims Mobile will be available to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. From this date forward, players will no longer be able to purchase packs or spend real money within TSM. Any existing SimCash, Simoleons, or Tickets can still be used until January 20, 2026.
In the final update, releasing on October 20th, 2025, everyone will receive unlimited energy to help them make the most of this time. This should make it easier to complete projects and enjoy the last few months of play.
October 21, 2025 – Delisted from app stores
The Sims Mobile will be delisted from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store on October 21st at 1:30 PM UTC. It will no longer be available for new downloads, but players who already have The Sims Mobile installed or have previously downloaded it can still update or re-download it.
If you are using the Google Play Store and have already downloaded The Sims Mobile, it should update as normal. If you have deleted it in the past and would like to redownload it, you can do so by going into your ‘My apps & games’ section, then into your ‘app library’ to find it.
If you are using the Apple App Store, you will need to open the Apple App Store, access ‘My Purchases” and search for The Sims Mobile to find it. If you are having trouble updating it this way, try deleting the app and redownloading it using this method again.
January 6, 2026 – Content unlocked
All Build Mode and Create A Sim (CAS) items will unlock for every player. These won’t be limited by levels, so that means EVERYTHING Build mode and CAS are available. We want to give everyone the opportunity to build their dream home, design their perfect Sims, and experience everything TSM has to offer before the servers close. We would love to see what you create if you would like to share it with us.
January 20, 2026 – Server closure
The servers will shut down at 1:59 PM UTC. After this time, The Sims Mobile will no longer be playable. Because game progress is stored on our servers, saved data will no longer be available.
Final Rerun Events
| Name | Type | Start Time | End Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eerie Autumn | Festival Pass | Oct 20 | Dec 19 |
| Cozier Home | Sweet Treat Showdown | Oct 20 | Nov 2 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #1 | Limited Time Quest | Oct 27 | Nov 3 |
| Hallways Ready | Treasure Hunt | Nov 3 | Nov 16 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #2 | Limited Time Quest | Nov 10 | Nov 17 |
| Foxbury Institute | Sweet Treat Showdown | Nov 17 | Nov 30 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #3 | Limited Time Quest | Nov 24 | Dec 1 |
| Season’s Greetings | Treasure Hunt | Dec 1 | Dec 14 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #4 | Limited Time Quest | Dec 8 | Dec 15 |
| Sweet Holiday | Sweet Treat Showdown | Dec 15 | Dec 28 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #5 | Limited Time Quest | Dec 22 | Dec 29 |
| New Year’s Dock and Roll | Treasure Hunt | Dec 29 | Jan 10 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #6 | Limited Time Quest | Jan 1 | Jan 8 |
| Wumple’s Wishlist #7 | Limited Time Quest | Jan 10 | Jan 17 |
Frequently Asked Questions answered by The Sims Mobile Team
The Sims Mobile team has provided a brief FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) thread about The Sims Mobile shutting down. Unfortunately the main question about why The Sims Mobile is pulling the plug hasn’t been answered.
Take a look:
Frequently Asked Questions
Will there still be events in this update?
Yes. Events will continue to run as usual, so you can still earn Simoleons and items during the final months.
Can I still play after the game is delisted?
Yes. If you already have TSM installed, you can keep playing until January 20, 2026.
Can I still play after TSM sunsets on January 20, 2026?
No. TSM requires online servers to play, so playing in any form will no longer be possible after this date.
Can I re-download TSM later?
If you downloaded TSM before it is delisted, you can re-download it from your app store library until January 20, 2026.
What happens to my purchases?
All purchases you’ve made before October 20 will still work in-game right up until January 20, 2026. After that date, The Sims Mobile will no longer be playable, and any leftover currency will not be eligible for a refund.
From January 6, every Build Mode and Create A Sim item will be free for everyone playing. We recommend using your currency and tickets before then.
On behalf of the entire Sims Mobile team, thank you for sharing this amazing journey with us. We hope you enjoy the final update and that these final months allow everyone to finish projects, make memories, and celebrate their Sims.
Thanks (Dag dag)
The Sims Mobile Team
What’s Next?
It’s no secret that The Sims Mobile’s development has toned down gradually over the years. Highly priced festival passes, paying for individual swatches and many controversial changes from the original vision started by Maxis has lead away many players from actively playing this game.
On one hand, we’re getting new smartphone Sims experiences including The Sims Project Stories and The Sims Project Rene. The first game seems like a similar replica of The Sims Mobile in some ways with a few Gardenscape features mixed in. The Sims Project Rene experience on smartphones promises to be an extension and appropriation of already available features on future Desktop and Console ports of the game. Plus, there’s still The Sims FreePlay which just released a new update several days ago.
As someone who started playing The Sims Mobile from the day of its release in 2017 until next year in 2018 when the game got really bad, I can’t help but wonder if the game was nothing more than a testing ground for what we’re getting in the future (Project Stories and Project Rene). And if players who spent real life money on Sims Mobile currencies were nothing more but investors in upcoming mobile Sims games.
What are your thoughts on The Sims Mobile shutting down? Join the conversation below!
twas inevitable
Was going to happen eventually that’s what you get for investing in a ‘mobile game’. Just further proof mobile is not a platform for gaming just scams to milk your bank account and credit score.
i just really wish they’d unlock all the career/hobby/relationship stories, but nope, paywalled or completely inaccessible till the end
This is why I have no faith in Project Rene, or any “free-to-play” games for that matter. Any day, companies will just delete everything without consequences, including all the money you may have spent on micro-transactions. TSM is neither the first nor the last to go down that way. If anything, it lasted a decent while compared to most games of that kind.
Always remember people, “if something is free, you are the product”.
Hopefully they will release the family portrait in the sims 4 for everyone.
It was never promising, this game managed to be even worse than TS4. I am glad it’s gone.
Okay but now that we can’t purchase stuff how do I get sim cash? Cuz I can’t unlock the festival pass with 165 sim cash
Stop investing in these freemium garbage mobile games. They inevitably shut down and you never get to play it again. That should be illegal. Glad I didn’t invest any real money in this. They could easily have made some way to do an offline version of this but they won’t. Remember when animal crossing pocket camp shut down but they went to a paid offline version to keep everyone happy and allow everyone to keep playing after shutdown and play offline? Ea could… But they won’t. Now they’re working on a follow up to mobile, project stories or whatever, and that isn’t a good look if they’re shutting down mobile. Don’t get sucked into project stories. They will abandon that too.
Yeah this is crazy. Imagine if they had shut Sims 2 and 3 became unplayable after a few years? At least those games had substance though
And nothing of value was lost
I never play on mobile, so it’s really not a big loss.
I’m so sorry that Sims Mobile is going away. I’ve been playing that game before I found Sims4. Sims Mobile should be like Nintendo’s Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete; where you paid one time fee.
I’m absolutely gutted that SIMS MOBILE will no longer be accessible. It has, by far, the best graphics. I could really relax while play this game!!
COME BACK…please. the other SIMS games are terrible by comparison