The Sims 4: How to Find a Sim ID

Sometimes when you are working with different cheat codes in The Sims 4 you may need to find your sim’s SIM ID, this is a few numbers that represent your specific sim and will essentially tell the game that you are working with that specific sim.

How to Find a Sim ID

To find your sim’s ID you are first going to need to open the cheat box by hitting ctrl + shift + c and typing in the following cheat sims.get_sim_id_by_name (First Name) (Last Name) and hitting enter.

For example, if you were trying to find the sim ID for Bob Pancakes, the cheat would be, sims.get_sim_id_by_name Bob Pancakes and then you would hit enter.

Final Thoughts

It is pretty annoying to have to do an extra step to be able to use a specific cheat, but thankfully its really easy to find your sim’s sim ID if you know how!

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42 Comments

    1. You probably misspelled your sim’s name on accident. I’ve never had an issue with the command and I’ve been playing for months.. I only came to this site after taking a month break because I forgot the command.

  1. You probably misspelled your sim’s name on accident. I’ve never had an issue with the command and I’ve been playing for months.. I only came to this site after taking a month break because I forgot the command.

  2. No go here either. Is this usable on the consoles? Because I see nothing come up after a dozen different ways of using that code.

  3. This worked nicely for me, thank you!

    1. Enable Testing Cheats
    2. Enter in live mode the lot where the Sim is. 
    Open the cheat box and type in: 
    cheat sims. get_sim_id_by_name (First Name) (Last Name) 
    Example: sims.get_sim_id_by_name Reese Cheung
    Hit enter. The ID should appear for that Sim.
    Note: This also worked for me to get the ID of a non-household Sim who was visiting the lot.

    1. THANK YOU my sims keep having twins and I just wanted one normal child, I often find making cheats work difficult because the steps or the cheat is typed unclearly, you really helped me!

  4. Awesome thanks for the tip of entering the code while the game is pressed play live mode. The id cam right up

  5. I’ve found that if the sim you are trying to get the code for has a space between parts of their name (ex. Lestat De Lioncourt, Louis Pointe Du Lac, etc) the cheat will not work. The work around I found was to temporarily change the name causing the problem to a single word (ex Lestat De Lioncourt into Lestat Lioncourt) and it worked perfectly.

  6. What about sims with 3 names? I get:

    Error: get_sim_id_by_name() got multiple values for argument ‘_connection’

  7. You don’t need parentheses for this command
    For example, this is working find:
    sims.get_sim_id_by_name Lilith Vatore

  8. I have tried literally everythig you guys have said and i dont know if im just really bad at this game but nothing has worked.

  9. How many digits are sim ids supposed to be? Mine has 19 digits, is that ok? I’ve checked and rechecked, but I have copied everything correctly and the same goes for my other sims. All of their sim ids are 19 digits. Is this unusual?

  10. This is not working for me either,have read comments and made sure i’ve tried everything suggested and checked spelling but still not working.

  11. I was having trouble getting the id but after I typed in sims.get_sim_id_by_name firstname lastname it worked! Skip the () and see if it works for you too

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