Photos/Paintings turn Black/white (Patch 1.120.140/2.26)

All of my photos are blacked out after the update that was supposed to prevent that from happening. My game is up to date and was fine last night. 

Hi! So with this new patch, I thought they fixed this glitch? And yet today, my photos have never glitched this much before. Playing my legacy save and randomly every single picture I have hanging on my walls (which is a lot, cause it's my legacy save), all are now blacked out. I'm so over this glitch.

the patch before I give it to you, you fixed the black photos, but then the memorial photos turned white, now IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FIXED ON THIS UPDATE, it's all broken. portaits i had to take for funerals are all black, baby photos wedding photos etc etc all gone, the memorial DID work but guess it did for a few hours and it goes back to default, 

I play family gameplay. photos mean so much 

it really needs sorting out and properly!. get someone to test first. because now the update has completely broken my game !

I'm playing on a very recent save file, a new game started after the 12.2025 update. Everything was more or less fine with the photos until the 13.01.2026 update. All the photos turned black! How can a bug that was supposed to be fixed cause so much damage to a recent save file from a month ago, without mods or custom content?

EA has announced a fix for this coming with the patch in February. I recommend you hold up on taking photos until then.

I wasnt having this bug at all before the recent update. now every picture in every save is black!? What is going on EA? im assuming my photos are gone forever? thats a real low blow. EA keeps face punching me! im sick!

All my photos turned black too after the update. 😭 👌🏻 That's not ok. 

I've played the same family for over a year now, have HUNDREDS of photos and art at both my home and club, all black.  I've removed all of my mods, no difference, but we all know this is a save game corruption issue.  Never any significant problems with my game until this last update.  

I guess I won't be playing again until February and see if Maxis can get it right.  I certainly won't be purchasing any more buggy Sims content.

If EA/Maxis really cared about keeping their players happy this would be released as a hotfix asap.

Same here, I wasn't affected by the glitch until this recent update, now all my pictures are ruined. I've spent a lot of money over the years on this game, I'm absolutely sick of this. This game is so broken now, rather than fix it, they cash grab with another expansion pack. Fix the bloody game!! I for one am not spending another penny until something is done about the constant crashing of the game on my console and the glitches in the game 

I felt the same way they should spend more time fixing the game instead of putting out more new content that’s gonna break the game even further. I just started playing lilsims very veggie challenge. Thought the black picture glitch was fixed. Started taking pictures. Put them on my wall now they’re all black. They’ve said they fixed the problem several times but yet it’s still happening for a game that’s been around for as long as the Sims has not just the Sims four but the entire franchise you would think that they would spend their money a little more wisely and making sure that the community that plays their game is happy and will continue to want to play their game but EA doesn’t think that way at all they care about is their profits the bottom line so what in the game broken who cares we’ll throw a few bug fixes in here and there make the community happy, and they will say we’ve got some brand new content for you. Why don’t you spend your hard earned money on it just so we can break your game again. And another thing that I’d like to bring to their attention, they put out more bug fixes for the PC players then they do for the console players. I know that the console players don’t measure up to the number of PC players, but when you’re gonna fix a game, make sure you take the time to put as much effort in to the console players as you do for the PC players cause not all of us can afford to have a PC that will run a game this size especially when they have nearly every single pack y’all have ever put out for the Sims four.  Like I said, I’m one of the lonely little console players that doesn’t have access to custom content so I play the game the way the game was intended to be played and I don’t have access to the mods that the PC players have that can fix their game quicker than y’all can fix the game.