How to Install UI Cheats in The Sims 4

Three things decide whether this works on the first try, and all three are worth two minutes now rather than an hour later.

Patch the game first. weerbesu says of the current line that it "is built with game version 1.127.41 and it will not work for older versions of the game". Let the EA app or Steam finish updating before you install anything.

Get the current build. v1.59.1 was released on 27 August 2026. If you are holding an older zip from a previous patch cycle, throw it away and get the current version first.

Expect to use both files. The zip contains a package file and a script file, and the mod needs both. No expansion packs are required; the base game is enough.

The Mods folder sits in your user Documents folder on both platforms. It has nothing to do with where the game itself is installed.

If the Mods folder is not there, the game creates it the first time you launch with mods enabled, and you can also just make it yourself with that exact name.

Steam players: do not put anything in SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 4\Mods. Files in the install directory are ignored.

One Windows-only trap is worth knowing about. If your Documents folder has been redirected into OneDrive, the game can end up ignoring the Mods folder entirely, and OneDrive has also been reported restoring mod files you deleted. Moving the Electronic Arts folder back to a local drive, or excluding The Sims 4 folders from sync, fixes it.

There are three checks, and they fail in different ways, which is what makes them useful together.

The version check. Right-click the notebook icon next to the phone icon in Live mode and the installed version appears. The same answer comes from typing ui_cheats.mod_versionCopy in the cheat console while you are in Live mode. If either one answers, the script file is loading.

The Mods menu. Installed correctly, the package file is listed under Custom Content and the script file under Script Mods. One entry without the other tells you which file is in the wrong place.

The smoke test. Load a save and right-click the household funds counter at the top of the screen. A dialog should ask you for a number. Type one and the funds change.

The Sims 4 patches break UI Cheats regularly, and the mod is updated to match within days. weerbesu is blunt about the cause: missing interface, graphical or textual glitches on panels and freezing menus are "always" a mismatch between your game version and your mod version.

Work in this order after a patch lands.

1. Let the game finish updating before you launch it.
2. Check the mod version you have with ui_cheats.mod_versionCopy or the notebook icon, and compare it with the current release shown at the top of this page.
3. If they differ, download the new zip and extract it, then delete the old package and script files before you copy the new ones in.
4. Keep exactly one copy. Renamed backups and "old" folders still load, and two copies of the same mod is its own failure mode.
5. Restart the game and run the version check again.

Script Mods Allowed usually survives an update, but it costs nothing to look at Game Options while you are there. The version history lists every release with the game version it was built for, which is the fastest way to tell whether an update is even out yet.

Match what you are seeing to the cause before you change anything.

• No menu at all when you right-click. Neither file loaded, or mods are switched off. Re-check both Game Options toggles and restart.
• The dialog opens, typing a value does nothing. The script file is not loading. Check it is present, and no more than one subfolder deep.
• Panels are glitched, blank or frozen. Version mismatch. Update the game, then the mod.
• Nothing changed at all. Check you extracted the zip rather than copying the archive itself into Mods.
• It worked, then stopped after you added another mod. UI Cheats only conflicts with other mods that override the same interface resources. Remove other UI mods, test on its own, then add them back one at a time.

The longer diagnostic, in the order that actually resolves things, is on the page for if the mod does not load. Reinstalling The Sims 4 is never the answer here, whatever else you read.