Touch control method and apparatus

This application provides a touch control method and an apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a first touch operation entered by a user on a touchscreen; and mapping, by the terminal when the first touch operation is performed on a first preset area in a target interface, the first touch operation to a second touch operation, so that a target application responds to the second touch operation, instead of the first touch operation. The target interface is any interface that is presented by the target application and covers the first preset area, and the target application is an application running in the foreground.