Maxis, please fix

I've noticed all teen Sims seem to have an obsession with their mobile phone. I have a family living a very natural life in Sulani, away from technology, yet they are still constantly pouting into their phones.

I know alot of players rather have toggles instead of things being taken out completely, but I wouldn't be the least but upset if autonomous mobile phone animations were gotten rid of completely.

Proposed solution: the sims actually have to *buy* a cell phone. As in TS2. Make having a phone - cell or land line - something decided by the player. That works in earlier versions, so why not this one?

"Oldeseadogge;c-17886208" wrote:
Proposed solution: the sims actually have to *buy* a cell phone. As in TS2. Make having a phone - cell or land line - something decided by the player. That works in earlier versions, so why not this one?

as much as I agree and wished for this for a long time, it's unlikely, as key elements in the UI belong to the phone widget. now, if they could move those out of the phone widget into a sort of.. uhm... iuno. interact-with-world widget, and at the same time keep all of the current phone things in the actual buyable/upgradeable phone, with maybe carrier upgrades too, then it might be interesting, but I doubt they'd do that.

I’ve been waiting for a toggle to turn off the phone for a very long time. I don’t think it will ever happen.

Yesss I hate it. I'm off the grid, why are all my sims obsessed with their phones?

Maybe you could use MC Tuner with the MC Command Center mod and disable the phone animations.

"GirlFromIpanema;c-17885074" wrote:
I've noticed all teen Sims seem to have an obsession with their mobile phone. I have a family living a very natural life in Sulani, away from technology, yet they are still constantly pouting into their phones.

My teen sims do that too, even with free will turned off. It's annoying because it wastes time and delays the actions in their queues, and takes longer for some activities to get done.

> @eksynn said:
> please make phones not compulsory. please for the love of sanity give us an off-button so sims will no longer compulsory use phones on their own. no-longer will they take pointless selfies without actually taking selfies; no longer will they randomly use the phone to check simstagram or whatever they use it for during a conversation or a date, or even while just sitting there, with literal free will turned off for the selected sim.
>
> do you realise how immersion-breaking this is if you're trying to play off the grid or a medieval challenge? VERY FRIQIN IMMERSION BREAKING is how much it is.
>
> plzfix

my toddlers phone was ringing the other day, toddler!!!!!!!!!!

"BB0990;c-17886795" wrote:
> @eksynn said:
> please make phones not compulsory. please for the love of sanity give us an off-button so sims will no longer compulsory use phones on their own. no-longer will they take pointless selfies without actually taking selfies; no longer will they randomly use the phone to check simstagram or whatever they use it for during a conversation or a date, or even while just sitting there, with literal free will turned off for the selected sim.
>
> do you realise how immersion-breaking this is if you're trying to play off the grid or a medieval challenge? VERY FRIQIN IMMERSION BREAKING is how much it is.
>
> plzfix

my toddlers phone was ringing the other day, toddler!!!!!!!!!!

hah, yea that happened to me yesterday too xD I was like "who the heck would give a toddler a phone?"
(edit, just as a side note, you can click the second option below my post to quote what I said ^^)

"logion;c-17886737" wrote:
Maybe you could use MC Tuner with the MC Command Center mod and disable the phone animations.

that, for me, isn't working for some reason. either that or I did it wrong lol - I'll try again next time I play anyway. but the fact we still need to rely on mods for common-sense things like this is greatly ridiculous to me

"eksynn;c-17887535" wrote:

"BB0990;c-17886795" wrote:
> @eksynn said:
> please make phones not compulsory. please for the love of sanity give us an off-button so sims will no longer compulsory use phones on their own. no-longer will they take pointless selfies without actually taking selfies; no longer will they randomly use the phone to check simstagram or whatever they use it for during a conversation or a date, or even while just sitting there, with literal free will turned off for the selected sim.
>
> do you realise how immersion-breaking this is if you're trying to play off the grid or a medieval challenge? VERY FRIQIN IMMERSION BREAKING is how much it is.
>
> plzfix

my toddlers phone was ringing the other day, toddler!!!!!!!!!!

hah, yea that happened to me yesterday too xD I was like "who the heck would give a toddler a phone?"
(edit, just as a side note, you can click the second option below my post to quote what I said ^^)

"logion;c-17886737" wrote:
Maybe you could use MC Tuner with the MC Command Center mod and disable the phone animations.

that, for me, isn't working for some reason. either that or I did it wrong lol - I'll try again next time I play anyway. but the fact we still need to rely on mods for common-sense things like this is greatly ridiculous to me

Here is a useful tutorial on how to use the MC Tuner: https://deaderpool-mccc.com/#/doc/mc_tuner with that you should be able to search for phone interactions like surfing on the web etc. and disable the animations for autonomy. They listed some on that site actually if you scroll down to "phone" where they have common actions listed. Hopefully that will work.

You can also go to MCCC > MCCC Settings > Notification / Console / Menu Settings > Phone Texts and silence the phone if you don't want people calling you about festivals and things like that.