Where does it say Applied? At the IRS or Turbo Tax or on your tax return? Applied can mean different things. Like the IRS applied your refund to a past debt or you applied your refund to next year as an estimated payment.
If you used the Online version you can check your efile status here
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/
When you efile you get back 2 emails. The first email only confirms the transmission. The second email says if the IRS (or state) Accepted or Rejected your efile. And check your spam folder for them.
When you log into your account you should also see the status and if it was Accepted or Rejected, Started, Printed, Ready to Mail, etc. What does it say?
And check your 1040 tax return. Do you have a refund on line 35a? Or is there an amount on line 36?
