You appear to have CocoaPods installed but it is not working.

[Jay-57blocks]

          Hi @janpio, I had the same issue and I fixed after uninstalling cocoapods and adding `gem "cocoapods"` to the Gemfile and installing it via `bundle install`. Hope it helps.

Originally posted by @jorgefspereira in #16683 (comment)

Warning: CocoaPods is installed but broken. Skipping pod install.
  You appear to have CocoaPods installed but it is not working.
  This can happen if the version of Ruby that CocoaPods was installed with is different from the one being used to invoke it.
  This can usually be fixed by re-installing CocoaPods.
To re-install see https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html#installation for instructions.

CocoaPods not installed or not in valid state.

        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane_core/lib/fastlane_core/ui/ui.rb:17:in `method_missing'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/helper/sh_helper.rb:80:in `sh_control_output'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/helper/sh_helper.rb:16:in `sh_no_action'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/fast_file.rb:223:in `block in sh'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/actions/actions_helper.rb:69:in `execute_action'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/fast_file.rb:222:in `sh'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/fast_file.rb:216:in `sh'
        from Fastfile:103:in `block (3 levels) in parsing_binding'
        from Fastfile:100:in `chdir'
        from Fastfile:100:in `block (2 levels) in parsing_binding'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/lane.rb:41:in `call'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/runner.rb:49:in `block in execute'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/runner.rb:45:in `chdir'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/runner.rb:45:in `execute'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/lane_manager.rb:46:in `cruise_lane'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/command_line_handler.rb:34:in `handle'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/commands_generator.rb:110:in `block (2 levels) in run'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/command.rb:187:in `call'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/command.rb:157:in `run'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/runner.rb:444:in `run_active_command'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane_core/lib/fastlane_core/ui/fastlane_runner.rb:124:in `run!'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/commander-4.6.0/lib/commander/delegates.rb:18:in `run!'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/commands_generator.rb:354:in `run'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/commands_generator.rb:43:in `start'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/fastlane/lib/fastlane/cli_tools_distributor.rb:123:in `take_off'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/gems/fastlane-2.219.0/bin/fastlane:23:in `<top (required)>'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/bin/fastlane:25:in `load'
        from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fastlane/2.219.0_2/libexec/bin/fastlane:25:in `<main>'

I tried this method and it didn't work. Is there any other effective method?

[Jay-57blocks]

gem uninstall cocoapods
gem install cocoapods

I reinstalled cocopods like above and added the gem "cocoapods" to the Gemfile and it didn't work.

[lucgrabowski]

Hi, have you checked: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#12081 ?
I converted the issue to discussion as it's not fastlane related.

[Mickey3487]

First, ensure that CocoaPods is correctly installed on your system. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
pod --version
This command should output the version of CocoaPods installed. NCEdCloud If you don't see a version number or if you get an error message, it indicates that CocoaPods may not be installed correctly.