A communication method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first communications device receives first DCI from a network device in first discontinuous reception active time, where the first DCI is used to indicate new uplink or downlink data transmission; the first communications device does not expect to receive a PDCCH from the network device in a first time period after the first discontinuous reception active time, where a start moment of the first time period is an end moment of the first discontinuous reception active time, and an end moment of the first time period is in second discontinuous reception active time; and the first communications device moniters the PDCCH after the first time period.