Amending your tax return to change how you wanted to receive the refund for the original return will not work, so if you did not send in the amended return yet, do not bother. You should only amend a tax return that has been filed and fully processed by the IRS. It takes the IRS six months or longer to process an amended return.
What is NOT clear from your post is whether you already filed the original return. Did you e-file? Was it accepted? Once a tax return has been filed and accepted, you cannot change how you want to receive your refund. The IRS does not allow you to change it.
Did you e-file? Did you click a big orange button that said “Transmit my returns now?”
When you e-file your federal return you will receive two emails from TurboTax. The first one will say that your return was submitted. The second email will tell you if your federal return was accepted or rejected. If you e-filed a state return, there will be a third email to tell you if the state accepted or rejected your state return.
First, check your e-file status to see if your return was accepted:
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/
If the IRS accepted it, what does it say here?
https://www.irs.gov/refunds
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