Sims 4 June update targets tattoo and Gallery freezing fixes
Custom tattoos and a console Gallery freeze are in final testing, putting two of the Sims 4’s most visible headaches on the June patch watchlist.
The Sims 4 team says custom tattoos are finally being fixed and the Gallery freeze on console may be on the way out, with both changes now in final testing for the June base game update. If the build clears that last hurdle, the difference will be immediate in everyday play: tattoos should behave properly again, and PlayStation and Xbox players may no longer get stalled when they try to use one of the game’s busiest community hubs.
That matters because EA has spent most of late April and May tightening up the same parts of the game players touch every day. On May 5, the studio said the May 12 base-game update would bring more than 150 fixes and new features, pulled from top EA Forums issues and additional feedback gathered from Discord and Reddit. EA also set a Sims Discord Dev Q&A for May 5 at 2 pm PT and a Twitch livestream for May 6 at 10 am PT, signaling how closely the team was tying the patch cycle to community reports.
The Gallery has been one of the clearest pressure points. EA said on May 20 and 21 that PlayStation and Xbox players were seeing the Gallery become unresponsive, and that a fix was being worked into an upcoming update. That followed an April 28 post, published after The Sims 4 Marketplace launched on PlayStation and Xbox, which said some Gallery search and filter results were incorrect in certain situations but that no uploads were removed. For players who use the Gallery to download, like, comment on, and share Sims, homes, and fully designed rooms, even a brief freeze can break the rhythm of a normal session.
The June patch now sits in that same fast-moving stretch of updates, with EA’s news page showing a cluster of related Sims 4 posts across late April and May 2026, including Marketplace notes, Gallery fixes, patch updates, and a new SimSearch search option. The pattern is hard to miss: the studio is still iterating rapidly on Gallery performance, console stability, and quality-of-life problems, and the two fixes now in final testing are the ones players will feel first if the June build ships as planned.
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