Apparatus, methods, and systems for switching communication modes of a remote UE are disclosed. An apparatus includes a processor (405) and a radio transceiver (425) in communication with a relay unit (120). Here, the processor (405) decides to handover the relay unit (120) and determines a group of one or more remote units (105) associated with the relay unit (120), wherein the relay unit (120) is a relay for the group. The processor (405) selects a target base unit (110) of the mobile communications network based on the group of relay units (120) and one or more remote units (105), and determines a first subset of remote units (105) from among the group of one or more remote units (105) that cannot be supported by the target base unit (110). The processor (405) also sends a command to the remote units (105) in the first subset of remote units (105) to resume communications with the mobile communications network without requiring use of the relay unit (120).