upgrade-support iOS application freezes on start when upgrading from react-native 0.68.4 to 0.70.14

Environment

MacOS - Sonoma 14.1.1 (23B81) xCode - Version 15.1 (15C65) with iPhone 15 ios 17.2

Output of `react-native-info`

warn Package @sentry/react-native contains invalid configuration: "dependency.platforms.ios.sharedLibraries" is not allowed,"dependency.hooks" is not allowed. Please verify it's properly linked using "react-native config" command and contact the package maintainers about this. warn Package react-native-vector-icons contains invalid configuration: "dependency.assets" is not allowed. Please verify it's properly linked using "react-native config" command and contact the package maintainers about this. info Fetching system and libraries information... (node:62159) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'padLevels' of module exports inside circular dependency (Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created) System: OS: macOS 14.1.1 CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz Memory: 71.75 MB / 16.00 GB Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash Binaries: Node: 16.20.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.20.2/bin/node Yarn: 1.19.2 - /usr/local/bin/yarn npm: 8.19.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.20.2/bin/npm Watchman: 2024.01.22.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.11.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 23.2, iOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2 Android SDK: Not Found IDEs: Android Studio: 2023.1 AI-231.9392.1.2311.11255304 Xcode: 15.1/15C65 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild Languages: Java: 11.0.9 - /Users/plamen.petkov/.jenv/shims/javac npmPackages: @react-native-community/cli: 7.0.4 => 7.0.4 react: 18.1.0 => 18.1.0 react-native: 0.70.14 => 0.70.14 react-native-macos: Not Found npmGlobalPackages: react-native: Not Found

Things I’ve done to figure out my issue

[x] I used upgrade-helper to do my upgrade.

Upgrading version

I am upgrading from version 0.68.4 to 0.70.14

Description

Hey everyone, recently I had to upgrade my react-native version to a minimum of 0.70.14. I was on 0.68.4. It was a relatively big upgrade since I had to change many things which resulted in many errors. I managed to run Android successfully and even the appcenter Android builds passed. Unfortunately, I can not run iOS. It appears that everything loads just fine, the metro, the bundling process, etc but when the application tries to run it hangs on the splash screen(however I don't think this is an issue with the BootSplash itself since before the upgrade it worked just fine). I receive no errors at all just one message in the debugger which says "Manifest does not exist - creating a new one.

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By the way in xCode Clean and Build Phases both finish with no errors at all. I tried deleting the DerivedData, tried to give a specific path to the node in my "Run Script" in addition shutting down watchman and basically all of the stuff I managed to find on the internet. Unfortunately with no success for the past almost 3 weeks. Will be very grateful if anyone can help me with this.