I have starts new expo project using the command:

npx create-expo-app@latest

I also installed Xcode and all the simulators.

then I navigated into my project and used the command:

npx expo start

which opened a terminal, like this:

however when I pressed i to open the iOS simulator I got this:

I tried to start the app using the command:

npx expo start --tunnel

but I got to this error:

CommandError: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The “file” argument
must be of type string. Received null

I am not sure why this happens, I haven been able to solve this. can someone provide assistance?
Here are my version details:

nvm -v -> 0.39.7
npm -v -> 10.7.0
node -v -> v20.14.0