Sims free play crashing after update last night. Person stuck in neighbors town.

I also had a Sim get stuck in a neighbor's town. It happened this morning, but I didn't notice an app update occur until later tonight (unless I happened to miss it). I've seen others mention that the issue involves an island bridge or a preteen, but I don't have either of those. I'm on level 10.

I sent one Sim over to the neighbors to make acquaintences and earn XP. I did this with one successfully, but another Sim got stuck. I was switching quickly back and forth between the visiting sim (neighborhood) and my Sims to keep them busy. My Sim finished "being nice" and has flashing XP, but if I click the Sm under the Sim tracker it crashes. Same thing if I click "Visiting" under the party boat. I'm visiting the standard "another sim town" and not a Facebook friend. Since the Sim is flashing "XP", I don't have the whistle option. Sometimes the app crashes a second time, and I have to open it a third time.

I've never backed up to the cloud since I didn't realize it was an option. Unless it's automatic, I won't have a backup, so I don't want to risk resetting the game. Ironically, I can't back up to the cloud because of the very problem of my Sim being away. I've tried logging out of Facebook and Game Center with no luck.

I spent all my SP in hope that it would call the Sim home, but that didn't work out.

I have a Sim undergoing an activity in the park. I went to the park and then tried to pull up the other neighborhood but the crash still happens, and the Sim doesn't return. I haven't tried yet to ask another Sim to move out of the neighborhood - I'll try that later.

I hope this bug can be patched soon. I've run into other more minor issues (such as the other neighborhood not having a pool or guitar required by the tasks) but otherwise the game has been going well.