Sims 4 July 2026 Patch Overview: Autosave & Other New Features

The new Sims 4 July 2026 Patch dropped on July 21st, 2026, with its own range of new features, tweaks, and bug fixes for issues that we've seen spring up over the last few patches while The Sims team focuses on cleaning the game up, per previous updates and Q&As. This patch features some new additions, including a new and improved autosave feature for Windows & Mac users.

Sims 4 July 2026 Patch Overview: Autosave & Other Features

New Features and Items

Some new features and items were added, and a new character has been an appearance with the new feature of Autosave and Save Reminders; The Save Reminder Gnome that will pester you to save your game (If you want it to!) has now appeared on the Home Screen.

New CAS Starter Sims

Are you familiar with any of these Sims? If you've spent time in the Sims 4 Create-A-Sim, you likely are! These are CAS Starter Sims, meaning that they show up as soon as you choose to create a new household or "Reset Current Household" in CAS. They have full outfits and appearances, as well as canon names, unlike randomized Sims that pop up otherwise.

Initially introduced in a mini-trailer uploaded by The Sims Team, eight new Sims have been added to the CAS Starter Sims roster, wearing newer CAS items in the accessories category that have been added, as will be shown below.

These are the eight new starter Sims, in-game and in the trailer, as getting them is completely random. However, you can consistently use the "Reset Current Household" button to "randomize" which one you have.

While I wasn't able to get Yuniel Suarez, I was able to reset until I saw every new CAS Starter Sim at least once!

Eight New CAS Accessories

And part of the reason for these CAS Starter Sims is to show off the eight new accessories added to the base game through this update. Two sets of earrings, one necklace, and five watches/bracelets were added.

Autosave & Save Reminder Settings

A new tab has appeared in the Options/Settings area of the Sims 4; Save Settings. These settings now allow you to customize as well as enable/disable the new autosave feature, save reminders (From the Save Reminder Gnome), and their specifics and durations.

The settings outside of enabling or disabling include setting specific in-game or real-life intervals for reminders and autosaves, as well as being able to set up autosaves to happen under specific conditions, like upon leaving build mode.

Nordhaven Hobby Meet Up Notifications

Like a previous update that added the ability to disable the repetitive festival notifications across the copious Sims 4 DLC, Nordhaven Hobby Meet Ups now have a toggle as well, allowing you to ignore them or just disable them if you don't want them for now. You can always go back in and enable, disable, re-enable, etc., to your heart's content.

Bug Fixes

Not too many bugs were addressed with this update, with most of it going to adding the new features and items, as well as a few specific instances of bugs. The primary one was the roof bug introduced in the Sims 4 June patch, and it seems that it has been resolved.

From the official patch notes, here are the fixes implemented for issues that were highly upvoted on the EA Forums.

Have you used and how do you feel about the autosave feature, as well as the new additions to Create-A-Sim? Let us know! Make sure to follow The Sims Community for up-to-date news on new features in The Sims and beyond!