Positioning Method and Electronic Device

An electronic device receives a first input operation performed by a user; determines a to-be-positioned target device and a predetermined moving track in response to the first input operation; and obtains WI-FI feature information of the target device or a WI-FI hotspot apparatus with a known geographical location and motion information of a first electronic device in a process in which the first electronic device moves along the predetermined moving track to determine and display location information of the target device such that the target device can be positioned using one electronic device, there is no need to be a plurality of known reference points, and an offline fingerprint database is not relied on.