ℹ️ About

This mod is included as an option in Phone Call Overhaul. You don't need it if you already use that mod.

In an unmodded game, the "silence phone" option works more like an "auto answer". Under the hood it checks for a "decline" response and automatically picks it for the player - if it can't find any it picks the "accept" response instead.

There are two glaring issues with this implementation:

• Some phone calls disable the decline response. In that case, the game will automatically accept the phone call, effectively preventing the player from interacting with the call while it's still accepted.
• If the phone call has any on-decline effects, such as a notification or a moodlet, they will still trigger even though the phone call never visibly did, which can be very confusing for the player.

This becomes even more confusing when you check the game lesson on cell phone, which reads "Silence Phone will keep other Sims from calling you."

This mod overrides the option and forces the game to always choose the "close dialog" option instead, effectively ignoring all phone calls before they're shown to the player without triggering any of their effects.

⚠️Important

For clarification: silencing the phone will block even important phone calls, like when an NPC who is pregnant with your sim's child calls to let you know they gave birth. This is not caused by the mod, it's how the option already works in the base game.