This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device receives conditional handover configuration information from a first network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a trigger condition of a conditional handover, and the first network device is a network device to which a serving cell currently accessed by the terminal device belongs. The terminal device determines a first target cell based on the conditional handover configuration information, where the first target cell is a cell in at least one candidate target cell that satisfies the trigger condition.