HOW DO I ACCESS ICLOUD EMAIL IF MY ACCOUNT IS LOCKED???
I am in a very unfortunate situation where 1) my mother's phone was stolen, 2) she does not remember the icloud password and was thus locked out, 3) we turned on account recovery but now we have 27 days to reset the password. On top of that, I think we DO remember the password now, and apple says I can cancel the account recovery --- with email instructions sent to the apple ID email (WHICH IS the icloud email, that we are locked out of).
Additionally, I can unlock the account via email or phone verification. Problem to apple - the phone is stolen and I cannot get the text. I cannot get into icloud email because I was locked out of it. It's so frustrating and we think this phone is still active, alive, and retrievable somewhere (along with our other personal and very important valuables) if we can just access find my iphone/icloud but this delay has caused much frustration and anxiety. Apple support has been so unhelpful and wish they would change this policy. There should be other identifying information that should give you access/rights to your own device and data.
iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13