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Keeping your Snapchat streak going on iPhone is easier than ever before.

With iOS 18 you can now switch out the Flashlight and Camera shortcuts on your lock screen for any of over 50 options, including Snapchat's camera. With the shortcut, you can quickly take photos and videos for Snapchat with the tap of a button. But you need to unlock your phone to edit or send Snapchats.

Here's how to add the shortcut.

Total Time

• 1min

What You Need

• iPhone
• Snapchat
• iOS 18

Step 1: Hold down on your lock screen

Step 2: Select "Customize"

Step 3: Tap "Lock Screen"

Step 4: Select either the Flashlight or Camera icon

Tap whichever shortcut you want to be replaced by Snapchat.

Step 5: Hit the + icon

Step 6: Scroll through the options or use the search bar to find Snapchat and select it

Step 7: Tap "Done"

Apple's newest update, iOS 18, brought with it a long list of AI features, dubbed Apple Intelligence. Gemini Live is now available on Android phones, Lenovo created an AI-powered laptop, and Google can't get enough AI in its search results, or its phones.

If you've looked around at phone updates recently and thought, "huh, that's a lot of AI features — too bad I don't care about that at all," you wouldn't be alone. According to a survey of 2,484 adults including 2,387 smartphone owners from CNET and YouGov, people aren't ecstatic about AI on their phones.

A quarter of smartphone users reported that they "don't find AI features helpful" at all while about half of respondents said they weren't interested in paying a monthly subscription fee for AI capabilities. Meanwhile, about a third have privacy concerns about AI on their phones.

This changes a bit depending on generation, with younger people more comfortable and willing to spend on AI than older smartphone users. Overall, according to CNET, AI is "among the last reasons consumers want to upgrade their smartphones."

Then what is actually drawing smartphone users to upgrade? Battery life, of course. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said longer battery life is their "biggest motivation" for an upgrade, followed by more storage and better camera features. AI integrations motivated just 18 percent of respondents.

No matter why you choose to upgrade, waiting on AI seems to be the best route. After all, it is moving at quite the pace.

A group experts call Salt Typhoon is believed to be behind a sophisticated breach into major telecommunication companies that has taken aim at American leaders.

OpenAI has once again trimmed its safety-focused operations, dissolving its AGI Readiness team — a group dedicated to preparing for so-called artificial general intelligence. Miles Brundage, a senior advisor on the team, broke the news in a post on his Substack Wednesday, which also confirmed his departure from the company.

SEE ALSO: OpenAI funding round values company at $157 billion

In the post, Brundage hinted at a growing need for independence in his work, suggesting that his exit reflects a desire for more freedom as he continues to explore the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

"I decided that I want to impact and influence AI's development from outside the industry rather than inside," Brundage wrote, adding, "I’ve done much of what I set out to do at OpenAI."

Brundage went on to express broader concerns, stating, "Neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready, and the world is also not ready." According to Brundage, this isn’t a lone sentiment — many within OpenAI’s senior ranks share these reservations. As for the AGI Readiness team, former members are set to be reassigned across other divisions within OpenAI.

SEE ALSO: Sam Altman steps down as head of OpenAI's safety group

A company spokesperson told CNBC they back Brundage’s choice to move on. Still, the timing is rough for OpenAI, which has been navigating an exodus of senior leadership at a moment when stability is key. Although it was able to snag a top AI researcher from Microsoft, that addition doesn't fill the many recent gaps in OpenAI's upper ranks.

The leadership shifts and team dissolutions aren’t helping to quell mounting concerns around OpenAI's push toward AGI, particularly since its controversial announcement of a plan to become a fully for-profit company after beginning its life as a nonprofit.

Back in May, the company disbanded its SuperAlignment team — a group tasked with pioneering "scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us." Around the same time, OpenAI also reassigned its top AI safety leader, raising eyebrows within the AI ethics community and beyond.