Installing UI Cheats on a Mac

Yes. The mod runs on PC and Mac, and guides that cover both platforms describe an identical process: the same files, the same Mods folder under Documents, the same two settings.

That is because The Sims 4 loads mods from your user data folder rather than from wherever the game itself is installed, so the launcher and the operating system change nothing about where the files go.

What does matter on any platform is the version. v1.59.1, released 27 August 2026, is built for game version 1.127.41 and will not work on older versions of the game. Let the EA app or Steam finish updating before you install.

The full path, with your own user name in place of the angle brackets, is:

/Users/<YourUsername>/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

In Finder, the fastest route is Go > Go to Folder (Shift-Command-G), then paste ~/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods. The tilde stands for your home folder, so you do not have to type your user name at all.

If the folder is not there, the game creates it the first time you launch with mods enabled. You can also create it by hand, spelled exactly like that, inside The Sims 4.

Steam players on a Mac: the Mods folder is still the one in Documents. Files placed in the Steam install directory are ignored.

You do not need the console to use UI Cheats. You do need it for the version check, and for any cheat the mod does not cover.

Which keys open it on a Mac is genuinely unsettled. EA's own cheat FAQ gives Control+Shift+C for "your PC or Mac", while SnootySims and Sims Community both give Command+Shift+C. Players report both working. Try Control+Shift+C first; if no text bar appears in the top-left corner, try Command+Shift+C.

Once the bar is open, ui_cheats.mod_versionCopy reports the installed version of the mod, and testingcheats trueCopy switches on the cheats that are not always available. UI Cheats itself has not needed testingcheats since v1.1 in 2015.

For the full console walkthrough, including what testingcheats changes, see how to enable cheats in The Sims 4.

Some Mac guides tell you to clear a quarantine attribute, adjust Gatekeeper, or run a Terminal command against your Mods folder before mods will load. We could not source any of that for this mod.

What the sources do say is that the Mac process is identical to the Windows one, and no page we could read describes a Mac-specific permission problem with UI Cheats. Neither of the two files is an application you launch; the game reads them itself.

So this page will not give you a Terminal command. If you find one elsewhere, treat it as unconfirmed, and do not run something against your own Documents folder because a guide told you to. Work through the sourced causes below first, because they explain nearly every report of the mod not loading.

The causes are the same as on Windows, and they are worth checking in this order. weerbesu's own diagnosis is that missing interface, glitched panels and freezing menus are "always" a mismatch between the game version and the mod version, so start there.

1. Version mismatch. Update the game fully, then install the current mod release. Check what you have with ui_cheats.mod_versionCopy.
2. A dialog opens but the value does nothing. Your package file loaded and your script file did not. Check the script file is present and no more than one subfolder deep.
3. The zip was never expanded. A zip sitting in the Mods folder does nothing. Expand it and move the two files.
4. Script Mods Allowed is off, or was switched on without restarting. Turn it on in Game Options, apply, quit the game and reopen it.
5. More than one copy installed. Keep exactly one. Delete old versions and renamed duplicates instead of moving them into another folder, because they still load.
6. Another interface mod. UI Cheats only conflicts with mods that override the same interface resources; when two do, the game reads the first and ignores the second. Test UI Cheats on its own, then add other interface mods back one at a time.
7. Stale cache after an update. Deleting localthumbcache.package from /Users/<YourUsername>/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/ and letting the game rebuild it is a common fix for glitched interface after an update.

One documented folder problem is Windows-only: Documents folders redirected into OneDrive, where the game ignores the Mods folder and deleted files come back. We found no equivalent report for iCloud Drive on a Mac, which makes it an unknown rather than a known fix.

Reinstalling The Sims 4 is not a proportionate fix for a mod that consists of two files in one folder, whatever else you read. The longer, ordered version of this list is on the UI Cheats troubleshooting page.

The Sims 4 Legacy Edition is the build for 32-bit PCs and for Macs without Metal support. It gets a different, much older copy of the mod: weerbesu links Legacy Edition players to UI Cheats Extension v1.15.1 on Mod The Sims.

That listing reports game version 1.58.63 and was last updated on 17 August 2022, so it has none of the features added to the main line since. It has still been downloaded more than 3.1 million times, which is a fair measure of how many people the mod has helped over the years.

If you are playing the current version of The Sims 4 on a modern Mac, this is not your download. Take v1.59.1 from the Patreon post like everyone else.