Intermittently the same thing that happens to Lisa0687 happens to me too. I've shut down and restarted my phone whenever I've had this situation on my iphone with the lite version I'm playing with: after a couple of days of playing with Virtual Families with no incident, maybe the 3rd or 4th time I try to go into the game the game closes after the opening sequence. I shut down and restart my phone and the game works fine again. It just seems weird I have to do this every few days. I've never had this happen when I played with fish tycoon lite. All other apps seem to be working fine too during these 'crashes'. Any other work around besides shutting down and restarting? I've already tried the delete and re-install using itunes thing once before too. I'm already on my 8th or 9th generation.