8 weeks ago I had an allergy attack that turned into bronchitis. Doc said my cough would linger for several weeks (as has happened in years past). My cough is very scary to anyone who hears it (like a fog horn). Mom says I have had it for 60+ years since I was a baby but even long time friends and family have always been aware of and ‘concerned’ by cough my entire life.

Fast forward to 4 weeks ago and I was around a family member who returned from an out of the country trip and was asymptomatic but tested positive so she chose to wear an N95 mask during our baby handoff meeting.

One week later I was still coughing and was scheduled to spend the day with a long time, very dear (but high anxiety) friend. I decided to take a test so that I could show her I was negative to put her mind at ease and we could enjoy our girls day out - it had been around a year since I last saw her. To my surprise I tested positive and was completely asymptomatic the entire time.

Somewhere around day 10 after testing I noticed my iPhone face recognition started having issues and would only work about 80% of the time. Each day it was getting worse and this morning it would not work at all. I rebooted my phone since it had been a while and rebooting fixes 90%+ of all problems but the face recognition still would not work. I had to reset it back from scratch and now it works 100% of the time.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this? I don’t understand how my face can “change” enough to make the facial recognition stop working.