error iOS project folder not found. Are you sure this is a React Native project?. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details

error iOS project folder not found. Are you sure this is a React Native project?. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.

When I try to run npx react-native run-ios I get this error. I set up react-native project correctly, and I do have ios folder inside of it, I don't understand why it is not detectable. I modified my INFO.PLIST because I wanted to adjust it to work with aws-amplify cognito signup for appleID. Do you think this might have broken the build? What I did so far:

1. clear cache
2. stop metro bundler and run the command again

No success.

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks!