The invention discloses a holder control method and device, a holder, a storage medium and a program product. The pan-tilt control method comprises: in response to a power-off or sleep instruction of a pan-tilt, generating a torque instruction of a motor of the pan-tilt according to a control parameter when the pan-tilt is power-off or sleep, the control parameter being related to a position of a photographing device on the pan-tilt, and the torque instruction at least comprising a torque direction (S101); and according to the torque instruction, controlling the photographing device to gradually descend from the pan-tilt shutdown or sleep moment (S102).