METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STARTING APPLICATION

An application start method and apparatus relate to the field of wireless communications technologies, so as to improve user experience. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a target application list when a size of free memory is greater than a preset threshold, where the target application list is used to store an identifier of an application whose memory is released last time, and the identifier of the application is used to uniquely identify the application; and starting, in the background, a process of an application identified by at least one identifier in the target application list. In this technical solution, when the size of the free memory is greater than the preset threshold, the terminal starts, in the background, the process of the application according to the target application list, and therefore a problem that the terminal repeatedly restarts and closes, in the background, the process of the application when memory needed for running, in the background, the application cannot be satisfied is avoided, so that user experience is improved.