Terminal application identification method and apparatus

The invention discloses a terminal application identification method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of receiving an application identification request of a to-be-identified first application installed in a terminal, wherein the application identification request is used for requesting to identify an application type of the first application; obtaining an authentication identifier matched with the first application; and identifying whether the application type of the first application is a target application type according to an authentication result of performing authentication on the authentication identifier, wherein a deletion permission is configured for the first application when the application type of the first application is the target application type. The technical problem of system operation exception caused by accidental deletion of important applications due to incapability of identifying application types of terminal applications is solved. 本发明公开了种终端应用识别方法及装置。其中，该方法包括：接收对安装在终端中的待识