The phrase "affect the application" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or changes can influence or modify the functioning or performance of an application.
Example: "The recent updates to the software may affect the application’s overall performance and user experience."
Alternatives: "impact the application" or "influence the application".
How might such a ruling — whether limiting or striking down race-conscious admissions at public universities — affect the application process of applicants themselves, including whites, Asians, blacks and Hispanics?
Rain occurring after the treatment (even immediately after) does not affect the application.
This may well affect the application of nano-materials in concrete.
This may or may not command greater public confidence but would not, of itself, affect the application of the new law of privacy to the press.
Nothing in this section shall affect the application of section 332(c)(3) of this title to commercial mobile service providers.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the application to organized professional baseball of the nonstatutory labor exemption from the antitrust laws.
However, some disadvantages in these systems, such as inaccurate posttranslational modification, slow production, low expression and high cost, affect the applications of the resulting rhLF.
"Under the court's current working methods clearly inadmissible cases are usually dealt with pretty quickly … A sunset clause would rather affect the applications which take longest to deal with and may be the most important".
This section shall not be construed as superseding or otherwise affecting the application of a requirement, under chapter 171 of title 28, to exhaust administrative remedies.
This highly affects the application layer performance.
The database affects the application — and the application is the customer's experience of your online services.
