TurboTax Desktop 2025 (Premier) Issues

[mschmitt]

I couldn't leave feedback using the in-product link, so here's my bug reports for TurboTax Desktop 2025 (Premier), on Mac...

1. The link to give a rating and review at the end just went to a completely blank page.
2. TurboTax desktop is still an Intel only app!!!! I can't believe this. Apple has already announced the upcoming end of Rosetta 2, which we all knew was coming. This means that we won't be able to open TT 2025 (or 2012-2024) on any Mac with a current OS.
3. The dialog for saving a tax return doesn't have any way to navigate into a subfolder. The secret work-around is that if you do a search from the dialog, and quit the search, then 3 lines from the folder appear.
4. 2025 TurboTax reports a different 2024 1099-INT than 2024 TurboTax reports -- 2025 is including the 1099-DIV box 12 Exempt Interest Dividends in the 1099-INT total
5. Double-clicking a field doesn't bring up the Supporting Details dialog anymore.
6. There's no longer a way to tell that you have entered Supporting Details. In prior versions of TT it would change the field to blue, but no longer.
7. Entering numbers into the Supporting Details has a new bug: you can only enter so many digits, and then it won't accept any more.
8. Estimated Tax Tax Payment options has a new bug: it used prior year actual withholding rather than the next year estimated withholding. If you're estimating that the 2026 withholding will be lower then 2025 actual, then it under estimates how much additional estimated tax payments need to be paid, which will result in underpayment.
9. The Estimated Tax interview asks for a ton of information that isn't needed if you are going to use the prior year safe harbor option. It should ask you up front if that's what you want to do, and then only collect the information necessary. Which, I think, is just the estimation of next year withholding.
10. Doesn't import estimated tax payments from Quicken.
11. The impression I get is that TT now has two kinds of interview dialogs: old classic Desktop pages, and new ones that appear to be a port of the online product web pages. There's clear differences; the web page ones don't act like a desktop application, and have a lot of bugs. Every year more pages get converted to the new type, which means more bugs.
12. In particular, the new pages for reviewing stock sales are particularly bad, and every year they get worse. This year the problems are:
    1. Not all on one list, you have to navigate to sections and then a page within the section
    2. But every time you edit a lot, it goes back to the first page for that section. Every. Single. Time.
    3. The list doesn't size the columns for the data, so you get Headings and detail items (including amounts!) split to 2 lines
    4. When you go to the last page of the last section, it just displays a completely blank page! (The secret is that when this happens, you need to scroll before it will render the page)
    5. Doesn't permit & in the security name, so you can't have a security for the S&P 500

In all I'd rate it 2 out of 5. Every year has been getting worse.

[baldietax]

@GabiU some good feedback from @mschmitt - given they couldn't put this into the app feedback hopefully you can get it to the appropriate folks.