How do you toggle upstairs and downstairs in Sims 4?

The Sims 4 continues to grant players an insane amount of control over the life of the sims they create. They can choose their careers, decide who they start families with, and even completely design their entire homes and dictate every action they do within it. Of course, if you’re ballin’ out, you’ll likely want to have multiple floors. Here’s how to go upstairs in The Sims 4.

How to Go Upstairs in The Sims 4

First, it’s important to note that there are multiple things you may want to do when it comes to the upstairs section of your house in The Sims 4.

For some of you, you may simply want to look at the upper level of your abode to check on a sim or begin expanding it further with the many design tools available to you. Others may want to literally take their sim upstairs so they can go to sleep.

Whichever of these it is that you’re wanting to do, fear not, we’ll run you through it below.

If you’re simply wanting to look at the upper floor of your house, all you need to do is press Page Up on your keyboard. There’s also an upwards arrow button in the top right-hand corner of the screen that enables you to change between the different floors. You can check this out in our screenshot below, circled in red.

How do you toggle upstairs and downstairs in Sims 4?

From this point, you can then simply crack on with making any changes to the house that you can afford. Alternatively, if you’re wanting to go upstairs with a sim to send them to bed, go to the bathroom, or whatever else that’s up there, just click on that sim’s portrait at the bottom of the screen and then use left click wherever you want them to move to.

If there’s an item that you want them to go and interact with, simply left click on this after selecting your sim’s portrait and choose what it is you want them to do with that item. For example, sleeping in a bed.

How to Go Downstairs in The Sims 4

As previously mentioned, in the same top right-hand corner of the screen as the upward arrow to move up through the floors in your house, there’s a downward arrow that lets you go downstairs in The Sims 4.

This can be found directly below it, and we’ve also circled this in the screenshot above in red. You can also use Page Down on your keyboard to navigate downstairs.

The same principles apply for getting a sim to move downstairs or interact with an object as they do above.

That’s everything you need to know on how to go upstairs in The Sims 4. For more on the game, be sure to check out our mods posts and guides down below.

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★★★ Novice

November 2017 - last edited November 2017

There's no way while playing live for me to select for my sim to go upstairs or for me to even toggle an upstairs view. Only way possible is through doing a rigmarole in build mode. Please help!!

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★★★★ Apprentice

November 2017

If you press up or down on the d-pad, you can select floors

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★★★★ Apprentice

November 2017

If you press up or down on the d-pad, you can select floors

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★★★ Novice

November 2017

So embarrassing how did I not try that 🙈
Thanks

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EA app Team

How do you toggle upstairs and downstairs in Sims 4?

November 2017

Takes a bit getting used to the controls, give it a few ours and you will be an expert!

How do you toggle upstairs and downstairs in Sims 4?

-Mai

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★★★ Newbie

November 2019

@msmendez the direction buttons under the left stick

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★★★★★ Novice

November 2019

Also, it's always a good idea checking the controls panel during different actions in the game by pressing in the left joystick. Placing an item or roof or terrain tools will have a different control panel when you click in the left joystick.

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Hero (Retired)

November 2019

@CitrousMedusa69  @jackRA88iTx  This post is from 2017 and March 2018. Please check dates before responding to very, very old posts. This post was marked solved in 2017. 

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Community Manager

June 2020

Hi all. 


Since this is a pretty old thread that wasn't updated for quite a while I went ahead and locked it. 

If you need help with an issue like this please create a new thread.

Thanks!

/Kent

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Why can't I toggle between floors Sims 4?

Re: Sims 4 Xbox One: Can't swap between floors You need to delete the userdata file that has your user settings and the user agreement in it.

How do you toggle between floors in Sims 4 pc?

Just to be sure, as @jpkarlsen mentioned, you can use the page up/page down keys on the keyboard to move floors or use the arrows in the upper right corner.