If a Sim has medium to high Responsibility, any idle that uses a phone (from any pack) will be disabled while they are grounded from the phone. If they have low Responsibility, all phone idles will cause your Sim to be autonomously scolded while grounded.

Included is a fix for an EA bug to prevent your Sims from receiving the “breaking grounding” buff even when not using their phone. Related EA Answers HQ Issues:

• [OPEN] [PH] Sim doesn’t disobey grounding, and still gets autonomously scolded