The Sims 4 totally broke after update 23-7-24

Mine kept messing up my teen and kids simology panels, so I tried removing Parenthood and that stopped hurting it. I think Parenthood is broken.

I am experiencing the same problem and you are right, the game is totally unplayable! I have disabled all cc in my game (I only had eyelashes and a few hairs) and I have repaired the game but the issues have stayed. I can get my sim to do a few actions but the moment the game requires a loading screen, it goes black and glitches and stays that way indefinitely. There is nothing I can do to fix it and I have to force quit every time. I hope they fix this soon because I was hoping to play when the new pack comes out... though at this rate I am concerned about how broken that pack will be too.

This is the black screen I mentioned.

Lot's of new spectators came on here to report this issue, including me. The game is completely unplayable. I have to force end task to get it to close even.. I hope it's fixed soon, our Sims NEED US!!! 😥 

My game is completely broken. I can open up the game, but once I am in, I can't click on any of the panels, the phone, settings, gallery, etc.  The only thing I can click on is the manage worlds button, but when I attempt to go to manage worlds, I get stuck in a black screen. All mods are disabled, so there is nothing that should be interfering. The only answer is that EA simply released a game breaking update. I'm super annoyed seeing as a new pack was meant to come out today. I'm so tired of giving this greedy company money just for them to continuously screw us over like this.

This is becoming a joke now I have been trying to play the sims for about 3 weeks ish and the games just broken I have gone through all my mods updated and removed some that are out of date and still the games broken I just have done the update they have put out and this still hasn’t fixed my game I can’t do anything in build mod I don’t have any tools or options to put furniture and things in, have the ea team even said there going to try and fix it or are we just going to left game less because we don’t have the new pack they have bought out 

My game is just playing by its own rules I SWEAR I’m so close to breaking down! Here is what mine is doing:

• NPCs won’t do ANYTHING when spawning on my night club lot (I had the **bleep** mod, which I have since deleted ALL mods to try and see if it’s an issue)
• Sims being weirdly mean to each other for no reason… even kind sims 
• Randomly stopping current actions and glitching to a new position/pose 

so I deleted the mods and the caches and them repaired the game via EA and tried on a completely new save with the base game and expansions:

• Playing sim randomly gets embarrassed when the welcome wagon was on and they came onto the lot
• Cancelling commands automatically.. I had to click ‘Eat Fruitcake’ THREE TIMES UNTIL SHE DID IT… then ‘Wash Dishes’, FOUR TIMES UNTIL SHE DID IT… ect ect with everything else 

I’m new to mods so I didn’t know I had to delete them before the update or not update… anyone else feeling my pain right now? 😑😑😑😑

This is beyond frustrating at this point. the game is completely unplayable, cant open inventory, skills etc panels, cant pull down the 3 dots to save. constant crashing. Considering how much everyone has spent on the game over the years you would think EA would spend some money to play test before releasing this mess. nearly a week now and still unable to play the game at all. 

is anyone still having this problem? i am and i haven't been able to play since the update and i am getting really bored so i was wondering if anyone has managed to fix it? I've tried repairing Sims which didn't work and I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling EA which also didn't work :(

Update: I tried playing again and it worked for the first 5 minutes however the icons were still messed up. My game then proceeded to glitch out and close :(

Same issue here, I can't save or travel, and my Sims was at work and at home.....at the same time. I hope they fix this soon, this is my escape from real life 😔😊

Similar thing is happening to me. I started my game after I did the update, I can't open build/buy mode. Nothing appears at the bottom, and if I try and close the game out after that, the entire thing freezes. I have to ctrl alt delete to get task manager up to close it. I tried to open the different panels at the bottom and nothing opened up then either. If I tried to edit my sim from in the game, the screen turned black and I could hear music, but nothing. Forcing me to open task manager to close it out. I tried to repair my game, it didn't do anything. I had taken all the mods out of my game, prior to doing the repair and it did not make a difference. This update absolutely wrecked my game, it is unplayable.