The neighbor’s bug in Sims 4 turns household members into neighbors and eventually makes them leave your household. The bug mostly occurs when you send your sim out.
Noteworthy, it causes previous household members not to be able to enter the house without an invite. You will not get options either when you click on the sim.
One potential reason is that the sim became caught in a loop due to a game glitch. The sim might have unintentionally been transferred to a different family in another scenario.
The Sims 4 neighbors bug can be fixed through the following steps:
1. Invite the Sim to your home
Since the sim can’t enter your house, you must invite them in. Click on the sim you want to return to your household and then the invite button.
When the sim returns to your house, it will become a household member again.
2. Have a household sim interact with the now-neighbor sim
One thing we noticed with this bug is that whenever a household member interacts with the sim that has now been labeled neighbor, they are converted back to being a household member.
You should either have another household sim invite the sim or send another sim to interact with the incorrectly tagged sim. Once they interact, you should move the family back to their original lot using the Go Home command or Send Everyone Home commands.
3. Reload the game
Reloading the game works in some instances. Make sure to save your progress, exit the game, close it, and reopen it.
Since you are dealing with a bug, the issue is likely to resolve by reopening the game. If this method doesn’t solve the error or if it only does so temporarily, then proceed to the next.
4. Move the sim back to its original household
If the sim has been moved to a different household by mistake, you can try moving them back to its original household.
To do this, go to the household management menu and select the sim, then choose the option to move them back to their original household.
5. Try repairing the game
If none of the above steps work, you may need to try repairing the game. To do this, go to the game’s installation folder and locate the “Repair” option.
Some residential lots were converted to generic ones after the patch, although residents remained. You have to modify it again to make it residential.