Data Restoration Method Used When Terminal Is Restored to Factory Settings, and Terminal

A data restoration method includes displaying, by a terminal, a piece of candidate data in response to a first input for enabling, by a user, a function of restoring to factory settings, receiving, by the terminal, a second input for selecting, by the user, to-be-restored data from the candidate data, backing up, by the terminal, the to-be-restored data to target storage space, where the target storage space is not formatted when the factory settings are restored, performing, by the terminal, an operation of restoring to the factory settings, and restoring, by the terminal, the to-be-restored data from the target storage space to an initial storage path of the to-be-restored data.