EA drops a new hotfix patch for The Sims 4.
There’s a new The Sims 4 Update across PC, Mac and Console platforms Xbox and Playstation. The latest patch is bringing a hotfix solution to the missing stair rails bug, as announced last week by The Sims Team.
Find out what’s been improved and changed in the official patch notes below:
The Hotfix and Day 0 Royals Update
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IInstalling 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.
There’s also a handy official guide to Mods and CC maintenance, as well as backing up your Saves! Click here to learn all about healthy upkeep of your The Sims 4 files.
Official Sims 4 Patch Notes
Update 2/12/2026
PC: 1.121.361.1020 / Mac: 1.121.361.1220
Console: Version 2.29
Sul Sul, Simmers!
This is a small patch to address a few player-reported issues since our last Base Game update. Thank you so much for your continued reports via the EA Forums!
-The Sims 4 Team
Bug Fixes
Base Game / Multipack
Live Mode
- [EA Forums] Stair railings will no longer be missing on premade lots, Gallery Lots, and player-created lots.
- Resolved an issue where Distant Relative and Distant Relative-In-Law relationship labels were showing up inconsistently.
- Resolved an issue where newly adopted Sims failed to appear in the Family Tree after exceeding a certain number of children.
- The same Sim will no longer show up as a part of different generations in the Family Tree.
Apparently the update is just 675MB on Windows. No idea why the size difference is drastic, but my original download report includes a filesize of 7.8GB on Mac.
What’s your experience with downloading the latest Sims 4 Update hotfix on your platform? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned to Sims Community for more Royalty & Legacy release coverage!
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Hotfix of their latest hotfix, it’s so difficult to get it right the first time?.
They program a patch and they don’t boot up the game to check if the stair railings are still there?, and the same for the labels of the family tree. I guess EA, one off the worst companies to work for, attracts the most mediocre developers.
I’m on a macbook and my file size for the update is 675mb too.
Can you fix the 45 other things first, my god I don’t care about stair rails. I was told in the last hot fix randos wouldn’t come into my house well they still do. Why is there a phone in my inventory that does nothing. Why are sims absolutely not taking care of their children and I have reset debug 16 times to give them a bath. Don’t get me started on the negatives of the souls journey I want the option to turnt that offfff. I haven’t even touched getaways I’m honestly scared of MWS repeat.
Don’t really care about stair railings. Just want to save my build to the gallery.
I’m on Mac and my update isnt 7.8 GB… girrl whatchu do?