Sul Sul, Simmers! Today, July 14th, Electronic Arts has officially published the latest Laundry List of updates and features. This Laundry List gives you a quick look at what’s coming in the update dropping July 21st. The Q&A session will be available on The Sims Discord, where the team will discuss the upcoming update and respond to player questions.
Coming To The Sims
AutoSave and Save Reminders will appear in the upcoming update on July 21st. Whether you’re deep in a build or lost in gameplay, these new features help make sure your save is protected! How does AutoSave work?
It works quietly in the background, saving at key times in your gameplay. AutoSave is customizable, allowing you to change how often and when the game saves. If you’d rather decide when you save, instead of allowing AutoSave to choose for you, Save Reminders will come in handy. Together, these features help reduce the possibility of losing progress.
Memory Boost
Memory Boost will be released across all platforms! With this update, gameplay will be smoother, creating a more enjoyable experience. Players may notice that in longer gameplay sessions, on highly decorated lots, or with large households, the improvements will be even more noticeable. What does Memory Boost do?
Memory Boost improves how The Sims 4 stores and manages memory while playing. It helps deliver a smoother experience with reduced lag, improved frame rates, responsiveness, shorter loading times, and a lower risk of memory-related crashes. Memory Boost is not a dedicated save repair! Though it can improve stability and help reduce memory-related save issues.
Bug Fixes
In the upcoming patch, Nordhave Hobby Meetups will also receive a toggle button to disable pesky notifications in your game. This pairs with the recent update that added toggles to festival notifications.
Roofs will now be fixed! No more transparent or invisible roof sections when attempting to build rooms within the roof. Roof pieces should now remain visible and render correctly regardless of the selected floor level.
With Memory Boost enabled, issues with corrupted lots from residential rentals should no longer occur.
Quality of Life
Throughout the past 6 months, The Sims Team has focused on delivering quality improvements while also continuing to improve the health of The Sims 4. Expected in September, another Quality of Life update will bring players improvements to Sims’ autonomy. This will make Sims behave with more common sense and intelligence across all gameplay.
It’s another step by The Sims Team to foster a smoother, more reliable, and more enjoyable experience every time you play. More will be released on this as September approaches! Dag Dag!
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
Whether you’re playing with a bustling household, building your dream home, or returning to a save that’s been with you for years, smoother gameplay means more time enjoying your stories. That’s why we’re introducing Memory Boost in the July 21 update across 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.
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
Over the past six months, our Quality of Life team has remained focused on delivering improvements driven by community feedback while continuing to strengthen the overall health of The Sims 4. Across multiple game updates, we’ve addressed many of the community’s most-voted issues – from gameplay systems and Sim behaviors to UI, routing, Build/Buy, and Create a Sim fixes – alongside hundreds of additional bug fixes and quality improvements. We’ve also made meaningful investments in the game’s long-term stability and performance, including reducing simulation lag, improving save stability for larger and more complex saves, and introducing features like Memory Boost, AutoSave, and Save Reminders to make everyday gameplay smoother, more reliable, and more resilient.
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.
For all the latest news, follow Sims Direct on X and join our Discord community – we’ll share updates as they’re available.
Thank you for your patience and for all the helpful reports. Please keep posting any issues you encounter on The Sims 4 EA Forums. We’ll keep checking in, and together we’ll make this game the best it can be.
Source: EA
