Apex Legends pits you against multiple players in battle royale experience, and the game is specifically played through an online medium. Due to the fact that the game relies on you to remain online, you can anticipate Apex Legends to have connection issues, and often those issues won’t allow you to jump online. It might be on your side, or developer Respawn Entertainment might have problems with the servers being down.
Every Tuesday at 1:00 pm EST, Apex Legends goes down to allow Repsawn the chance to do a series of maintenance fixes for the game. Tuesday is the reset for the game, enabling players to start over their weekly challenges, start new events, and a new update usually releases along with this fix.
Heads up, Legends: We are aware of and investigating connectivity issues impacting Apex across all platforms. We will continue to update you here as we have more information.
— Apex Legends (@PlayApex) May 19, 2020
Respawn is aware of this issue today. They released a statement on their Twitter page concerning the problem and have actually informed players they are working to try to fix the issue.
There’s no set downtime for the servers, however, players can anticipate getting additional information if Respawn needs extra time to work on them. Everything is on Respawn’s side, so players need to sit tight to wait for the game to return.