Big news for the Apex Legends crowd: EA has confirmed that Apex Legends is switching its PC anticheat system to EA Javelin Anticheat, with the change going live on September 29th, 2026.
As part of the announcement, EA thanked the outgoing anticheat provider, saying it is grateful to the Easy Anti-Cheat team at Epic Games for a long and fruitful partnership.
What is changing on September 29th?
Starting on that date, the game moves off its current PC anticheat solution and onto EA's own in-house system. According to EA, the switch is about giving its teams a better toolkit to react to cheaters as their methods evolve.
Quote From Respawn EA Javelin Anticheat is a PC anticheat solution designed to ensure fair play in EA games by preventing and detecting cheating while focusing on privacy and security. The goal is for players to have a level playing field where results, progression and success are determined purely by merit. This gives our players a more secure experience, preventing cheaters from impacting others’ gameplay, security and privacy.
Javelin Anticheat, the solution has prevented millions of cheating attempts while maintaining an accuracy rate of over 99%.
When this feature goes live on September 29th, PC players will be prompted to download a game update. After the update completes, launch Apex Legends and you’ll automatically be migrated to EA Javelin Anticheat – simple as that!
Some players may be familiar with EA Javelin Anticheat from other EA titles and might remember a component requiring them to navigate bios menus on their PC to enable secure boot. At this time, that is not the case for Apex Legends; simply download, install, launch, and play.
What About Consoles?
Yeah, cheating also does take place on consoles though it is not as grand of a scale as the cheats that plague PC. Respawn confirmed they are still actively investing in server-side detection for these cheaters.
Quote From Respawn While this update highlights our core PC protection layer, maintaining game integrity is a multi-platform priority. We continue to actively invest in specialized data models and server-side detection methods targeted at console-specific cheats. Bringing our anti-cheat engineering, telemetry, and data capabilities together in-house gives our teams greater speed and visibility, sharpening our ability to curb cheating across the entire landscape.
Cheating on Linux
Changing anti-cheat doesn't change much for gaming on Linux because Linux stopped being supported back in 2024 for Apex Legends. Which is a shame because we need good anti-cheat solutions for platforms like the Steam Deck to open them up to a wide-range of competitive titles.
Why bring this up randomly? It's not quite random! Earlier this year, EA posted a job opening for developing anti-cheats on ARM64 systems and as a small note in the post, Linux and Proton was mentioned.
Hopefully they're getting closer to developing a solution for it so we can all start to rid ourselves of Windows, at least for EA titles.
Are you glad to see Apex Legends bringing anticheat in-house? Let us know in the comments how your recent matches have been holding up.
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