Cannot access PC or email after updating recovery phone number.

[Windows 11]

My girlfriend was updating her MS account and changed the recovery phone number. It now doesn't allow her to use her pin, and when she attempts to log in using her password, it says that she must wait 30 days before she's able to log in again. And doesn't provide an option to change accounts. That's kinda crazy, especially because there's no warning ahead of time that it would render her computer completely unusable for a month, just because she updated her security settings. There doesn't seem to be any options for using a local or offline account like in previous versions.When researching so

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