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Yes sorry.  The Online version is different than the Desktop program.  You probably noticed several other big differences.   Online has less features and no Forms Mode.  You can only do 1 return per account.    Your return is only saved online so be sure to save both the .tax2025 data file and the pdf file to your computer when you are done.  In case you need to amend in the future or if you need a copy to get a loan or something.  You might not be able to access your online return when you need a copy.  

see the work around others have posted.      Key appears to be to ALLOW TT to find devices on the network.    but that message only seems to pop up once ( and I always hit BLOCK)   but changing to a different browser seems to force that message again.      

Follow-up: Manually overriding the incorrect 2024 values on a couple of worksheets did the trick and only required an hour of time.  It helped to print out the 2025 .pdf to search for '2024' instances, then find them in TurboTax and update manually.  Also helped to have my correct 2024 all forms .pdf on hand to copy the values from.

FYI, there is no need to change browsers if you prefer Brave.  I ran into the same problem, and wasted nearly an hour on the phone with a TT rep., who was very nice but had no idea how to actually solved the problem.  Then I remembered that Brave blocks popups and certain other things by default, which sometimes interfere with a legitimate website.  Before logging into the Fidelity page again, I clicked on the little red and white Brave icon (looks like a lion) at the right end of the address/search bar, clicked on the slider to turn off "Shields," and those two clicks solved the problem!  I successfully imported multiple 1099s from my Fidelity accounts, and they showed up in the right places on Turbotax.

You don't need to start over.    Since your tax return was rejected, you can go in and add your unemployment and then file again.   Did you get a rejection code?     It is too late to start over from scratch if you have already submitted your return, so go in and add your unemployment using the instructions below.   How do I report unemployment - with or without a 1099-G?

Did any turn 17 last year?   Then you lose the Child Tax Credit and only get the credit for Other Dependent.   There are a couple questions you could have answered wrong under My Info.  Click on My Info then click Edit by Dependents, then click Edit by their name and go though all the screens again.   First of all check their date of birth.  Also you need to enter a ssn for them.  And say their ssn is valid for employment.   If your child was away at college, count the number of months away as having lived with you.  The correct answer to claim the person is to say "the whole year". This will indicate you supported the person the whole year, thus it will be entered on your return correctly showing up as a dependent.   Or if your child was born during the year they are considered to have lived with you the whole year so be sure to answer All Year (pick the top box for the Whole Year).   Or the one that says did your CHILD pay more than half of their support.  It's not asking if you did.   If you can't get it to change then try completely deleting them and re-entering them.  Sometimes that helps to clear something out.

No, not a bug, but people seem to get tripped up with the question  "Did the child supply half their own support?"  You need to answer "No" if the child did not pay for more than half their own support.    I think people read it as asking if the parent supplied the support.  But it is asking if the CHILD paid for themselves.    Please select EDIT for the dependents and go back through that interview carefully.