'A few days or longer' is already too vague (and too long) to recover a freaking password when you have ALL the security settings up to date. But it's been SIX MONTHS. Nothing. Nada. I don't have an Apple Store close by to check in person. I can't call Apple Service because there isn't one for my country and they won't pay attention to me in the chat. So... I had no access until this lovely person above said I could check it on my iCloud on my laptop. But that's all I can do. I can't get notifications on my phone, so I have to check periodically to see if I've received any important emails, which is annoying and it makes me not want to use Apple any more, but at least I haven't lost access.