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Can you turn off the social bunny feature?
Atreya33
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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?
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2. Can it be turned on and off on a sim by sim basis? Is it turned on by default for new sims?
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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?
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?
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2. Can it be turned on and off on a sim by sim basis? Is it turned on by default for new sims?
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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?
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All the sims err'day
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!
You'll be the first on my list - so don't turn it off before!
It would be nice if they check their phones less.
Also thank you for pointing out that LGR made a review. I thought he was done with sims 4 so I didn't even check if he had a video about it. .
phone -> social -> deactivate social bunny
To clear notifications:
Social Bunny: You have to view the new thing it's notifying you about, and then switch to another Social Bunny tab, and only THEN can you close the menu and have the game realize you read the new thing. No idea why but it seems to work this way.
Calendar: You have to view the calendar event it's notifying you about. If just opening up the calendar doesn't work, try hovering over the day that got a new event.
if you don't add anyone to your friend list nothing will happen and unplayed sims don't use it to my knowledge.
the game might add responses of your own sim tho which nobody will respond to but this is an issue many people want to get rid of but as long as you have no sims added to the friend list you shouldn't gain any relationships from these