The present disclosure a service path changing method and apparatus, including: determining, by an MME, that a UE needs to be handed over from a first AG to a second AG; and instructing, by the MME, the UE to notify, according to bearer information used to perform service transmission between the second AG and the UE and assigned by the second AG, a service peer end that an IP address of the UE is changed from a first IP address assigned by the first AG to a second IP address assigned by the second AG. It is not required to add the first IP address assigned to the UE by the first AG into the IP address segment maintained by the second AG, and it is unnecessary to change routing information of a router in a PDN to route downlink data of the UE to the second AG.