I don't have the new pack. I am unsure if I will get it once it goes on sale, but the answer to this question will definitely influence my decision. Can you disable the social bunny? I have no interest in spending time to have my sims keep up with social media. I have also seen people complain about the social bunny adding romantic relationsships to sims, which I definately don't want. 1. Is there a way to turn it off entirely? I hope it can be turned of in general for all sims just like we can do for the fame system?2. 2. Can it be turned on and off on a sim by sim basis? Is it turned on by default for new sims?3. 3. Does the social bunny also affect unplayed sims? For example if you move in a sim who was a townie, will they have lots of (romantic) relationships due to the social bunny?

I haven't seen a way to turn it off but it's not constant pop ups you have to interact with it on your own.

I think you opt out of it by just not creating an account and interacting on social bunny. I played a sim for several days and she didn't get any pop-ups from it.

@Atreya33 I think I can help!1. There is not a general “turn on/off” toggle for social bunny.2. You can opt-out of social bunny per sim by using the phone settings.3. I haven’t seen any sims autonomously get into relationships via social bunny.I don’t have any social bunny pop-ups and I have the app deactivated for some sims and activated for others. If you don’t want to use social bunny, I’d recommend deactivating profiles for all of your played sims. By default, they will have active profiles.

"jpajari;c-18163719" wrote:@Atreya33 I think I can help!1. There is not a general “turn on/off” toggle for social bunny.2. You can opt-out of social bunny per sim by using the phone settings.3. I haven’t seen any sims autonomously get into relationships via social bunny.I don’t have any social bunny pop-ups and I have the app deactivated for some sims and activated for others. If you don’t want to use social bunny, I’d recommend deactivating profiles for all of your played sims. By default, they will have active profiles.Thank you. I wish the profiles were switched off by default and you have to turn them on but it's OK. I think I could manage with deactivating profiles for my sims.

"Atreya33;c-18163833" wrote:"jpajari;c-18163719" wrote:@Atreya33 I think I can help!1. There is not a general “turn on/off” toggle for social bunny.2. You can opt-out of social bunny per sim by using the phone settings.3. I haven’t seen any sims autonomously get into relationships via social bunny.I don’t have any social bunny pop-ups and I have the app deactivated for some sims and activated for others. If you don’t want to use social bunny, I’d recommend deactivating profiles for all of your played sims. By default, they will have active profiles.Thank you. I wish the profiles were switched off by default and you have to turn them on but it's OK. I think I could manage with deactivating profiles for my sims. I tried to turn notifications off. The sim has to do it manually. So if they skipped the command or it just kept going I can't tell for sure. But it's very distracting with all the blinking lights. I have turned all those sound off a long ago, maybe it just stopped the sound if it had any?I don't get pop-up's but the lights are still blinking. I have to keep an eye on the phone ringing same place. Now that social bunny, and even the event calendar(!!!) keep blinking I get distracted even more that all the stupid "I heard you became friends with so or so - clearly your a good person to know" - Eeew! Go away! Or the endless new job offers! I wish I could get a setting only for essential messages, or at least turn off the spam calls!

Can you turn off the social bunny feature?

Reddestiny921
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
I haven't seen a way to turn it off but it's not constant pop ups you have to interact with it on your own.
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I think you opt out of it by just not creating an account and interacting on social bunny. I played a sim for several days and she didn't get any pop-ups from it.
lemonnella
Seasoned Rookie
3 years ago
@Atreya33 I think I can help!

1. There is not a general “turn on/off” toggle for social bunny.
2. You can opt-out of social bunny per sim by using the phone settings.
3. I haven’t seen any sims autonomously get into relationships via social bunny.

I don’t have any social bunny pop-ups and I have the app deactivated for some sims and activated for others. If you don’t want to use social bunny, I’d recommend deactivating profiles for all of your played sims. By default, they will have active profiles.
atreya33
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"jpajari;c-18163719" wrote:
@Atreya33 I think I can help!

1. There is not a general “turn on/off” toggle for social bunny.
2. You can opt-out of social bunny per sim by using the phone settings.
3. I haven’t seen any sims autonomously get into relationships via social bunny.

I don’t have any social bunny pop-ups and I have the app deactivated for some sims and activated for others. If you don’t want to use social bunny, I’d recommend deactivating profiles for all of your played sims. By default, they will have active profiles.

Thank you. I wish the profiles were switched off by default and you have to turn them on but it's OK. I think I could manage with deactivating profiles for my sims.
Stinalina
3 years ago
"Atreya33;c-18163833" wrote:
"jpajari;c-18163719" wrote:
@Atreya33 I think I can help!

1. There is not a general “turn on/off” toggle for social bunny.
2. You can opt-out of social bunny per sim by using the phone settings.
3. I haven’t seen any sims autonomously get into relationships via social bunny.

I don’t have any social bunny pop-ups and I have the app deactivated for some sims and activated for others. If you don’t want to use social bunny, I’d recommend deactivating profiles for all of your played sims. By default, they will have active profiles.

Thank you. I wish the profiles were switched off by default and you have to turn them on but it's OK. I think I could manage with deactivating profiles for my sims.

I tried to turn notifications off. The sim has to do it manually. So if they skipped the command or it just kept going I can't tell for sure. But it's very distracting with all the blinking lights. I have turned all those sound off a long ago, maybe it just stopped the sound if it had any?
I don't get pop-up's but the lights are still blinking.

I have to keep an eye on the phone ringing same place. Now that social bunny, and even the event calendar(!!!) keep blinking I get distracted even more that all the stupid "I heard you became friends with so or so - clearly your a good person to know" - Eeew! Go away!
Or the endless new job offers! I wish I could get a setting only for essential messages, or at least turn off the spam calls!
pepperjax1230
Rising Novice
3 years ago
If you find away to turn off that annoying thing ping me.
SEREFRAS
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
I wish there was a toggle to turn off the phone. Oh well. :'(
TTNcreates
Rising Novice
3 years ago
You can turn off notifications from the phone menu.
Stinalina
3 years ago
"pepperjax1230;c-18164559" wrote:
If you find away to turn off that annoying thing ping me.

You'll be the first on my list - so don't turn it off before! :D
MaggieMae7276
Seasoned Traveler
3 years ago
I just watched a video by LGR reviewing HSY. In it he showed that there is a setting on the phone where you can deactivate Social Bunny. Don't know though if doing that will lessen a Sim's obsession with phones. I hope so, as I am not happy their phone obsession is now worse. Will be deactivating all my Sims' Social Bunny use!