The Sims 4 Responds to Broken Feature Complaints After December 2025 Update

The early December 2025 update for The Sims 4 has broken the Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs icons in the Create-A-Sim (CAS) menu, removing the visuals that shipped with the Lovestruck expansion. While the menu still appears to record player choices, the added inconvenience has already sparked dozens of player reports, prompting an official response from the Sims 4 developer Maxis.

Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs are a core component of the attraction system that Maxis introduced in The Sims 4: Lovestruck expansion, originally released on July 25, 2024. Like the name suggests, the feature allows players to set their characters’ turn-ons and turn-offs, influencing their romantic satisfaction and chemistry with others. These choices are displayed directly in the CAS menu, which appears to have undergone some unintended changes following the game’s latest patch.

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A December 2 update for The Sims 4 is believed to have broken the CAS icons for Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs. That’s according to dozens of user reports posted to both social media and Electronic Arts’ official forums in the days that followed, complaining about the inconvenient bug. “We’re aware of an issue in CAS showing the correct icons for Turn On/Turns Offs,” a Maxis representative nicknamed Mindy wrote on the official Sims Discord server. “We’re currently investigating a fix and will update this thread when we have more info.”

The December 2 update appears to have inadvertently removed several of the Create-A-Sim menu’s Lovestruck-specific elements, namely the likes and dislikes icons. Or more specifically, it stopped them from rendering correctly, thus obscuring which categories are marked. The bug seems to be purely cosmetic, as clicking the preferences in the Turn-Ons/Offs menu still yields the expected result by adding or removing a selection, player reports suggest.

We’re aware of an issue in CAS showing the correct icons for Turn On/Turns Offs. We’re currently investigating a fix and will update this thread when we have more info.

The CAS bug is understood to affect both console and PC players. The latter group reports encountering it regardless of any mods or other types of custom content. The issue reportedly persists even after cache clears, installation repairs, and complete reinstallations. While it doesn’t prevent players from setting Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs in The Sims 4, it does inhibit the process. Losing this kind of visual feedback in CAS at the very least complicates challenge runs that rely on min-maxing and clearly marked romantic preferences.

December 2025 Sims 4 Update Seemingly Fixed More Problems Than It Created

Given the current state of affairs and taking the timing of these user reports into consideration, the bug appears all but certain to be linked with the game’s latest update—version 1.120 on desktops and 2.25 on consoles. CAS UI issues aside, the latest patch is believed to have resolved more problems than it added. Among its fixes: Sims no longer display clothing behind privacy mosaics, sleep sessions are no longer interrupted by background radio, and teens now retain their non-teen-specific aspirations after aging up.

The 1.120 update also corrects multiple visual glitches with textures and animations. Among them is a duplicate color swatch (resembling bush green) for the “Arrrmed Living Chair” furniture. As removing the dupe would potentially break existing builds, Maxis opted for a more indirect solution: replacing one of the swatches with a new variant. Things snowballed from there, resulting in two more swatches being added, and since the Arrrmed Living Chair was part of a nine-object set, the remaining eight items also received the new color options. The patch additionally eliminates several save-corruption bugs, including the one responsible for the infamous “Error Code 109” message, among other novelties.