BitLife - Life Simulator

So I finished my royal life at age 123 and this is why I don't play generations. I wanted to but guess what. All my 9 kids died before I did. Anyway, it said that out of my 7 grandchildren, 5 plus hundreds attended my funeral. The next update will be sports and its coming out in a few weeks. I'm not a sports fan but its ok.

I think there is a bug with the custom cities. I was trying to add a city in India, and it selected a completely different country, even though I selected India in the country drop down box. Has anyone else had this problem, and, if it’s a bug, what is the best way to report it?

So I was testing something with the maintainnce of the cars and this is what I found. 1, you will hardly or never need to do car repairs by random popups. 2, if you're lucky, you will never be in any accidents. I only ended up in 1 and finally if you keep routine work on the car every year with out skipping out, you will never need to buy another car again for that life. For more than 20 years my car stayed at 100% and after some time it would drop by 2% or so but that's how it is in real life. I think that's interesting. And I did the same thing to my house and when I kept putting more money in to my house it kept going up in value.

Bitizens! Have you ever dreamed of becoming a famous musician? A pop star? A rapper? A rock star? We've worked tirelessly to bring that experience to you in this all-new Pop Star Update! Master an instrument, sign your record contract, bank that cash advance, and get poppin' on your first album! As always, tag us with your favorite screenshots on our socials! Enjoy, Bitizens!

Here's the full list of new things in this update:

• Become a famous musician!
• Join bands or sign hot contracts as a solo artist
• Become a singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist, violinist, and more!
• Establish yourself in music genres like pop, rap, rock, country, alternative, heavy metal, reggae, and more!
• Hold concerts in venues ranging from massive stadiums to kids' birthday parties!
• Take your talents on the road and go on world tours
• Release all types of albums and earn royalties on them for life!
• Earn certifications on your records like gold, platinum, double platinum, and diamond
• Set stage names and band names to anything you like
• Optimize your popularity and respect attributes across your career
• Manage relationships with your bandmates – or kick them out of the band!
• Collect new music-based achievements
• Start taking voice lessons or studying instruments as a child
• Set up your custom lives with all-new "special talents" like music or sports to give yourself an edge in those careers
• Your usual amount of bug squashes, textual updates, and life refinements
• Happy Thanksgiving, American Bitizens!

Hi,
I started a game last night as a person named after a former (now retired) local news anchor in my area. I made him into a pop star. Right now he's about 30-something, and is worth nearly 55 million dollars. But I thought it was really funny when a scenario blurb popped up saying the Bitlife music association has invited him to sing in a tribute show to Whitney Houston, and it asked what song he'd sing. I think the choices were How Will I Know, Queen Of The Night, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, And I Will Always Love You. I chose I Wanna Dance with Somebody, because quite truthfully, I can't picture a guy let alone someone like him singing any of those, but... I just thought that was funny.
I had him taking kazoo lessons from age 6 to about 13, then he took voice and guitar lessons.
He was in a band for about a year, but the band would never go with his visions for the singles and albums, so he went out on his own, and has several gold singles and albums so far.

Long time no comment!

I picked up Bitlife again to try out the sports and music updates.

Took me a while to get a character that had enough athleticism to even start down the pro sports route - a female in the US that I put in soccer. I had also done music lessons with her when young to see if I could have a separate path into music star or a band if it turned out she wasn't athletic enough.

So she got into soccer, got a full scholarship into college, got a contract into US women's soccer league, etc. etc. She was up to like 90% "greatness" by the time she was around 35 and had won 3 championships. She started getting injured more easily, though, and whenever she did surgery her Fitness would drop, so I was debating having her retire next year.

... then I goofed and ruined it all.

I got a pop-up that I skimmed and thought it was a new contract proposal, so I immediately hit 'accept'. (All I heard was <team name> ... offers <money>)

Turns out it was some team wanting me to fix a match for them and I accidentally agreed to match fixing.

Boy was I surprised after I accepted it and got the police sirens.

Now she got released from her championship team and is in prison for 4 years.

Whoops?

On a side note, anyone know if there is some trick to getting high enough music skills to maybe do the band thing? I tried guitar lessons with this same character but the skill only went up like 4% or so per year and was about 45% by the time she got to college. I wondered if maybe there is some hidden musicality skill.

Happy Holidays, dear Bitizens! We're showing up just on time with a festive, heart-warming, cheerful...MAFIA UPDATE. OK, maybe this update doesn't coincide exactly with the holiday spirit but it's what you asked for and so here it is. We had a blast making it. No pun intended.

Jokes aside, we wish you all a wonderful holiday season and thank you for everything that you've done this year to support our small team. We've got huge plans for 2021 and can't wait to share them with you in the new year!

Here's the full list of new things in this update:

• Join all types of global mafia families!
• Start as an associate and work your way up to godfather (or godmother!)
• Get ordered to pull off hits, shakedowns, and crimes
• Build and manage your notoriety and standing within your family
• Once you've proven yourself, you'll get a chance to become a "made man" (or lady!)
• Get sent for by your superiors
• Busted? Become a confidential informant and collect evidence against the family!
• Get assigned a new identity in the witness protection program!
• Identify snitches in your family and rat them out
• Contribute earnings to your family each year to stay in the godfather's good graces
• Be disloyal to your family...at your own risk!
• Extort local businesses and shake down (or whack) uncooperative individuals
• Manage your relationships with your family – seduce the godfather or whack him out!
• Assign other family members to pull off crimes for you
• Much more – and we're not just saying that, it's almost criminal how much content we've packed in this update (ahem)
• Countless bug fixes and textual refinements

Hi all. So after updating to the latest version when I enter the game it says direct touch and voiceover stops speaking. All voiceover gestures don't work, can't even use the rotor to turn direct touch on and so can't play.
Any work around? Thanks, Nick

Hi,
The new accessibility coding of bitlife hasn't come out yet, I knew that ahead of time thankfuly, so I didn't update. I rely too heavily in playing bitlife, so it was really lucky that the devs responded to my question about the update that it wouldn't be accessible. As of early February, they were about 80 percent done with the code to make it accessible again. They didn't provide a time frame though. Until then, guess I'll just tiptoe around the updates on my iPhone instead of just plowing through and pressing the update all button in the app store. Oh, well, it's a pain, but it's quite necessary, at least for me.

I just updated, and created a new life, I'm so happy it's accessible, and I no longer have to tiptoe around my updates avoiding the bitlife one. One thing I noticed, and it's a personal nitpicky preference is now when I'm customizing a life, I have to double-tap each letter when I'm writing their name. I can't use BSI or copy and paste, I think this is because bitlife now operates in a direct touch area. This is a minor problem, and I'm probably just going to have to stop my bellyaching and get used to it.
Another thing I noticed, and it's for the good now is that the choice of appearances work for people. I'm doing a bitlife of a prolific DC-based news anchor, and I was able to choose his looks based on what I've been able to gather about how he looks in real life.
I'm glad the bitlife devs listened and made it accessible again, whew, it's been a long 4.5-5 months tiptoeing around updates. :)

Hi,
A new version of Bitlife is out, and it seems accessible. It's the "street hustler" update. I'm on the computer, so I don't know how to paste the list of what's new. I figured if you care enough, you know where to look. :)

I am really enjoying the street hustler update. I'm still getting used to this version. I think they are using unity. Its something that crafting kingdom games used. So sad we can't copy stuff from our journals. Anyway, before i started a new life I was going to play my other life the good way but was just testing out bits and pieces of hustling. So if you do pan handling you make lots of money. However, if you live in a mansion or a real nice house people will rat you out. the best place to hustle is in a high traffic place and where the police presence is low. This life i'm only street hustling. I eloped with a woman and my parents got angry and i chose to beg in the streets. i don't think i will buy a house but i'm going to make lots of kids and live off of begging. Haha. Another thing that i noticed, at the doctor, you can donate blood if you like.

Right now, I’m living as British royalty. I started a new life as a princess last week. I’ve just kept going, continuing on as my child each time. I want to see how far this royal family will go before it comes to an end. I think I might save this life and start a new one so I can start living on the streets. Do you have to do anything special to start doing that? As for having kids in this new life, I’m not sure if I’m going to do that.

For street hustling, you don't need anything special. However, i haven't tried the thing with the instruments. Like where you just go out and play an instrument and people give you money. The scamming gives you plenty money but there are different levels of it. Haven't tried all as yet. I did go out as a fire eater but didn't make much money from that. I started kind of late so will give that another try in a next life.

Hi guys.

Any accessibility changes/fixes in the new Street hustler update? Thanks.

Sorry, I should have explained myself better. I was asking if anything had been changed since they implemented the unity accessibility plug-in. It doesn’t have to be significant as I know some fixes are not included in the list of changes.

Hi,
Has anybody been successful at becoming a confidential informant and wound up in witness protection in bitlife? My character has joined the mob, and become a confidential informant, but they haven't collected enough evidence in the 3 year period to wind up in protection. Any hints on how this can be done?
Thanks

To laggy and took me ages to get started

Do anyone know how to keep the street smarts at 100? I'm trying to do all the scams but everytime something goes wrong the skill stays up and the smarts goes down.

hello, I can't seem to edit my business with voiceover, such as salaries and production plans. Is anyone else having problems like this?

hello, I can't seem to edit my business with voiceover, such as salaries and production plans. Is anyone else having problems like this?

I'm having the same issue, it's almost like you should be able to double tap and a popup dialogue box should come up. I don't know if it's a voiceover accessibility mode bug or not. But I wrote to them on twitter.
I still managed to let my character run a food truck for 23 years, and now in another life, he's running a gift shop for about 15 years. Still staying afloat so far, even though I can't edit his and other ppeople's salaries.

I just picked this game up and I’m loving it! Although right now I’m playing the free version which is not bad at all, except for the annoying ads. Does anyone have any experience with how to close ads once they have run their course. Other than that, I’m loving the game, and the fact that from reading a users post, you can actually join the mob! That’s kind of cool since I’m a fan of my movies and TV shows.

It might not even be a voiceover issue.

I'm using ios 15 and i can activate the picker for some things but not everything. That may be a problem with in the game it self. I saw an update yesterday but that didn't fix any of the problems. One of my business went in to bankrupcy and even though i still had money i got bored and sold it then robbed a train and bought another business. sad we can't adjust things but we can still keep afloat. My food truck people mostly liked any kind of products with fries. Everything else failed.

I can say that my brain hurts very hard. Lol. I don't have a business head but running a coffee shop for 13 years is exhausting. Some years are good some are bad and i may go bankrupt in time to come. In this same life that i'm playing i'm on my 3rd business.

Hi,
Yesterday, I saw that the update fixed the not being able to pick salaries, production, etc etc. So I updated, or I thought I did, but I couldn't do the actions listed above, but I guess the update hadn't pushed itself to the app store on my end yet, because this morning, there was a "business 2.0" update. So it's working now.

My bitlife character (who is named after a famous 1-hit wonder singer, I won't name him here), he started out as a singer and had more than one hit in bitlife btw. But then he went on to first owning a health food store, then a coffee house. When his character died in bitlife, his son inherited the coffee house, his son is rather crooked, he's constantly cooking the books, they're so in debt right now, even getting some bankruptcy notices, lol.

Got one notice and sold my business. I think when i play a new life i will pay more attention to certain things. My coffee house wasn't making any profit at all because i was adjusting things just not the prices. So now i'm back to running a lame food truck again till this life is over. I hope there will be businesses that you can run on your own with no employees like a little shop or something like that. And then i want to own a chain of supermarkets when i get rich in another life. Not sure if they said that this is in the game but before starting up a business we should be able to take out loans from the bank. That should've been in the game before the business update.

I have a question. In the past when I have joined Mafia syndicates during some of my lives, I always noticed that I’m only an associate, is there anyway to get promoted to Ohio Renk?

Sometimes it takes a long time, but at a certain point when they feel that you're worthy, they will induct you into the mafia if you can pull off a hit. But sometimes it takes years and years.

So still playing the old life and running the food truck. In the anual reports, if you see that it says that the competition is going to slash prices on their items, you want more customers so you may send the price down of your product. You might not be able to make a profit that year but none of that item will be expired and you will attract more people. Anytime you do a team building activity, if the workers enjoyment is over 50 their competence will be higher. My performance as CEO is at 83 percent. Side note i asked the business consultant for advice and one time it said don't eat yellow snow and the next time was eat an apple a day. Made me laugh a little.

Lol is right but its not bad because i have millions to waste. I only spend like 2000 to hire. I think it depends on the business you own. When i had the coffee shop I payed like 20k or higher sometimes. And when some people terminate their contracts some of the reasons are none of your business. Lol. I always laugh when i see that.