Can I change which sim is selected by default (Sims 4)

Yeah, kill her!👿 I'm kidding of course. I too find it a little annoying that it likes to default to that first character, because just like how you want to play as that one sim I too like to pick one sim and stick with it. So I'm also interested in knowing if there's a way to rearrange the order, or if there's some way to keep it from switching sims. I'm on PS4, though I assume that anything that works for one version will work for the other too.

I appreciate the reply. Another easy enough solution that I realized is that I could just remake the sims and make mine first this time around, but I like the way they are and I don't wanna have to redo all of that just for something so small.

That is a smart idea, thanks. I do believe that has fixed my problem 🙂

Instead of clicking the big play button for the household, you can just pick the sim you want from the bottom left and they have their own individual play buttons. If you pick a sim and click their play button, they will be the one in control when you finish loading.

@PoptartJuniper Oh really? I'm not sure why I never noticed that the order was aged based lol. The Potion of Youth could help with your idea of using the library. It would be a way to get one sim younger than the other, and if the game doesn't rearrange the order automatically then move them back and forth between the library like you said.

Just one question though, how would you reapply the relationship status on consoles? Whenever I try to modify any sims' relationships it tells me "cannot edit pre-existing sims".

@simvasion It's too bad that doesn't prevent the game from switching back to the first sim when certain things reload the lot. Like modifying your sim in a mirror for example, once you finish that it automatically jumps back to control of the first sim. It's not a big deal by any means, but for someone that likes to change up their sims' clothes a lot I could see it being pretty annoying. Still, that is a good way to load into the household in control of the sim you want.

@PoptartJuniper Oh cool thank you. I never tried doing anything like that so I wasn't sure if you would be able to set that again. That could come in handy in the future, especially when the game decides to create a random household of sims with the same last name but none of them are related lol.