The Sims 4 Autosave Announced: July 14th, 2026 Laundry List

The Sims 4 Laundry List: July 14th, 2026

Hi Simmers!

Welcome to the Laundry List, where we share the fixes and features we’re working on for our July 21 Base Game update. This month we’re introducing a new AutoSave to The Sims 4, and rolling out Memory Boost to Mac and console players to improve overall performance for more Simmers, plus continuing to fix the top-reported issues from players via EA Forums. 

Join us on July 14 for a special Dev Q&A in The Sims Discord, where members of the development team will talk through these updates, and answer questions live.

The Sims Team

Coming to The Sims 4 on July 21

AutoSave and Save Reminders

From big life moments to everyday chaos, every Sim story deserves to be saved. With the July 21 update, we're introducing AutoSave and Save Reminders to help protect your progress while you play.

Whether you're spending hours in Build Mode or guiding your Sims through their next adventure, these new features make it easier to keep your stories safe so you can focus on what comes next.

AutoSave works quietly in the background, automatically creating save points at key moments while you play. You can customize when AutoSave happens in Game Save Settings, with options like saving after traveling between lots, after a period of playtime, or at important gameplay milestones. If you'd rather stay in control, Save Reminders like the friendly (or slightly grumpy) gnome notification below can prompt you to create a manual save at the frequency you choose. Together, these features help reduce the risk of lost progress while giving you the flexibility to save the way you want.

Memory Boost is Coming to all Platforms

Memory Boost improves how The Sims 4 manages memory while you play, helping deliver a smoother experience with reduced lag, improved frame rates and responsiveness, shorter loading times, and a lower risk of memory-related crashes.

Players may notice the biggest improvements during longer play sessions, in large households, on highly decorated lots, and in older save files. While Memory Boost isn't a dedicated save repair feature, it can also improve save stability and help reduce some memory-related save issues.

Want to learn more? Read our deep dive on Memory Boost:

Memory Boost Features

Sul Sul, Simmers!

We're always looking for ways to make your time in The Sims 4 feel smoother, more stable, and more fun. We're focused on improvements that benefit as many Simmers as possible. Memory Boost is one of those improvements. 

Available on all platforms with our July 21 Base Game update, Memory Boost improves how The Sims 4 manages memory while you play. That means less lag, better performance, and fewer memory-related crashes, so you can spend more time telling stories and less time dealing with technical hiccups.

You may notice the biggest improvements during longer play sessions, when playing with large households, on highly decorated lots, or in save files packed with years of Sims, builds, and stories.

Every setup is a little different, so your experience may vary depending on your hardware. But across all platforms, Memory Boost is designed to improve stability and help make gameplay feel more consistent from the moment you hit Play.

What's Included with Memory Boost?

With Memory Boost enabled, players will see:

• Improved memory management during gameplay
• Reduced lag and performance slowdowns
• Improved frame rates and responsiveness
• Greater stability during extended play sessions
• Reduced risk of memory-related crashes
• Reduced loading times

Improved Save Stability

Memory Boost can also help with certain save-related issues associated with memory limitations. During testing, some players experiencing issues such as missing lot data were able to recover affected content after enabling Memory Boost and loading their save.

While Memory Boost is not intended to be a dedicated save-repair tool and may not resolve every save-related issue, its improvements to memory management can help reduce the likelihood of certain problems occurring and support overall save stability.

Thank you to everyone who continues to share feedback and experiences with us. Your reports help shape our Quality of Life initiatives and guide future improvements to performance, stability, and the overall gameplay experience in The Sims 4.

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Bug Fixes

This month, much of our effort went into delivering new features like Memory Boost, Auto Save, and the Save Reminder system, which meant we tackled fewer individual bug fixes than usual - but these improvements build an important foundation for what's ahead. We'll have more to share as we get closer to September, and in the meantime, here's what we've addressed in the July 21 update:

• Last patch, we added new Festival Notification toggles in the Options menu. In this patch, we’ve added a new toggle for Nordhaven Hobby Meetups. 
• [EA Forums] We’ve resolved an issue where parts of a roof, or entire roof sections, could disappear when viewing upper floors in Build Mode. Roof pieces should now remain visible and render correctly regardless of the selected floor level.  
• [EA Forums] We tested reports of corrupted lots appearing in saves with many Residential Rentals. With Memory Boost now available and enabled for all players, we can no longer reproduce this issue in any of the affected saves we collected. 

Upcoming Quality-of-Life Updates

Our work doesn't stop here. The next major Quality of Life update, coming in September, is focused on improving general Sim autonomy - making Sims behave more intelligently, consistently, and responsively across everyday gameplay. It's another step in our ongoing commitment to making The Sims 4 feel smoother, more reliable, and more enjoyable every time you play. We'll have more to share about the September update as we get closer to release.