Friend's List Not Showing after Create a Memory Dump Error Code Season 25.

 I (on the EA app) was playing rank with a friend (who is on Steam) and during mid-fight, the game completely froze and we both received this error code about memory dump and closed down. After that, I booted the game back up but can't invite/see/add anyone from my friends list. It shows 0 online and 0 playing. I tried the repair option on EA app and didn't work. I also tried the app recovery option, restart app option, re-installed the EA app, did a clean boot and still nothing. I don't have the patience to re-install Apex itself since it takes like 2 hours to download and usually never fixes the problem doing that. There goes my pred grind.......[Edit - no mass tagging please - CM] please look into this. This game is not fun grinding solo. Thank you. Anyone else having this issue right now?