Mobile authenticators to stop cheating

To increase the security of your EA account we have Login Verification which will send a code to you via email, text, or by logging in with an authentication code. More information on that can be found below. We're not aware of any intentions to require players to have a phone to play Apex Legends. 

Login Verification

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/origin-login-verification-information/

This was from the recent Respawn Check-In on 3.8.2019

https://answers.ea.com/t5/News-Game-Updates/Respawn-Check-In-3-8-2019/m-p/7653687#M17

CHEATERS

As of today we’ve banned over 355K players on PC through Easy-Anti-Cheat. The service works but the fight against cheaters is an ongoing war that we’ll need to continue to adapt to and be very vigilant about fighting. We take cheating very seriously and care deeply about the health of Apex Legends for all players.

We are working on improvements to combat cheaters and we’re going to have to be pretty secretive about our plans. Cheaters are crafty and we don’t want them to see us coming. With that said, we can share some high levels things we’re doing:

• We are reaching out and working directly with experts, both within and outside of EA, in this area that we can learn from.

• Scaling up our anti-cheat team so we have more dedicated resources.

• We are adding a report feature on PC to report cheaters in game that goes directly to Easy-Anti-Cheat.