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Problem same as you outlined as of today 3/18/26.  Have paused VPN and taken other steps and still does not work.  Also have too many trades to manually input.  Where the help from Intuit as it seems, many have the same problem and with several financial entities.

First, be sure you successfully filed, and if efiled, that it was accepted.  Go to the Tax Home and look at the efile status.  Does it say accepted, rejected, printed, started, ready to mail, or what?   You don't have to "log in" to an online account on the IRS website to use the IRS refund lookup tool.   It it was accepted (or if you mailed the return), use the IRS "Where's My Refund" lookup tool at this website: https://www.irs.gov/refunds   NOTE:  If you printed and mailed the return, it can take at least 4 weeks just to show up in that IRS tool.   To use that tool, you will need to enter the correct tax year, your filing status, your SSN, and the Federal refund amount from your Federal 1040, Line 35a.       For the refund amount don't use a summary figure that TurboTax might have showed you that uses a sum of the Federal and state.   Look at your actual Federal return to get the figure from Form 1040, Line 35a.

It might ask you some triage questions about what items you need in your return and if you want to do it yourself, but if it doesn't, or places you in the wrong edition, here's a direct link to the page to get to "do it yourself" packages.   https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/file-your-own-taxes/   In a worst case scenario, if you were to end up in an expert-assisted product by mistake, we can tell you how to remove it and start over in the proper product.   To check what product you are in, look in the top left corner while signed into your started return.

Why did you mention a check?   The "Up to 5 days early" offer requires direct deposit.   Only if a direct deposit fails is a check issued.   What is displayed at the IRS "Where's My Refund" tool? https://www.irs.gov/refunds Has the IRS sent your refund?   Did you pay a $35 fee for the "Up to 5 days early" refund option to go to your own bank account?   The "up to" means it can be anywhere between 1-5 days.         Or did you choose the free option to get the early refund option in a Credit Karma MoneySpend account?         If you chose the method with a fee, TurboTax says that if the refund doesn't come at least 1 day earlier than it would have if it had come directly from the IRS itself, then the $35 fee won't be charged.   FAQ:  Up to 5 Days Early  Refund Offer https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund-advance/turbotaxs-five-days-early-refund-delivery-options/L9U8ngZlH_US_en_US

It's 2026, anyone know if this has been fixed? I am trying to use the App and am not seeing Form mode..... I'd rather not check the "real estate professional box" even if it does the same thing. Feels hacky. 

Are you saying you can't locate your 2024 online return prepared with Online TurboTax?  Go to the Tax Home and scroll down to "Your Tax Returns & Documents" and choose tax year 2024. Is there no 2024 return PDF, and it indicates you didn't successfully file?   If so, then you may have more than one account.  Perhaps you efiled the 2024 return in another account.  The notifications email you received may or may not be the account used to file the return, since you can have up to 5 accounts that use the same notifications email address.  Plus if you were in the same account as the successfully filed 2024 return, the 2024 AGI and other info should have been transferred into your 2025 return already.   So here's how to check for multiple accounts:   To get a list of your User IDs, reset password, and recover account access, etc., you can use the tool at the link below.  When using the Account Recovery tool, try using your phone number first if you can still access it.   After that, if necessary, then run the tool on your email address(es) you can access. NOTE: Before running the account recovery tool below, log out of all Intuit accounts including this user forum, or you might end up in a loop.  Then clear your browser Internet cache, close your browser, then reopen it, and go to the link below.  You may wish to copy this link so you can paste it into the new browser session. https://myturbotax.intuit.com/account-recovery If still no luck after running that on your phone number you can still access and email address(es) that you can access,  here's another method:          Go back to the tool again, but this time leave the data field blank, scroll down a bit, then choose the small blue link that says "Try something else", and it will look you up by other parameters.

What message is seen at the IRS "Where's My Refund" tool? https://www.irs.gov/refunds   And is the refund supposed to go directly from the IRS to your bank account (or card)?  Or did you choose an add-on option that uses a third-party intermediary bank, such as "Pay fees out of refund", or "Up to 4 days early" offer, or Refund Advance?

@alwaysconverting  I provided the shortcut method above to go directly to the estimated taxes entry section.   If you want to use regular navigation, here's how.  So between the 2 methods, you should be able to use one or both of them.   When you click in the left column tab for Deductions & Credits, it may take you to a page called "Your Tax Breaks".   That shows the "Tax Breaks", i.e., deductions, that someone has already worked on this year or that TurboTax is expecting from what was entered last year.   Lower on that same screen should be a button or link for "Add more tax breaks" or "Show more tax breaks" or similar wording.   When clicked, then the screen should expand, and all the deduction topics are displayed including "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid."  Then that topic can be expanded further to get the subtopic Estimated Tax Payments.

Here's a tool that should get you directly to the estimated tax payments section.  I've also provided an alternate navigation method in a comment that follows this one.   With the return open, go to the left menu column and click on TAX TOOLS, then the subtab TOOLS. In the Tools Center choose the blue button Topic Search. In the topic search line enter the phrase estimated tax payments without quotes. Make the selection in the list (it may already be highlighted), and either double-click it or click the GO button. Next screen is Estimates and Other Income Taxes Paid. Use the subtopic Estimated Tax Payments. Choose the appropriate category and tax year you are reporting (Federal, state, local) and click START or Revisit. NOTE:  Before filing, make sure your Federal estimated tax payments correctly show on the Form 1040, Line 26, and that any state estimated tax payments (if applicable) show up on your state return.