The present invention discloses a device searching method, a terminal, and a computer readable storage medium. Since an electronic device has not been used for a long time, a user tends to forget thearrangement location of the electronic device, and as a result, the user needs to spend a lot of time and effort to search the electronic device. The invention aims to solve the above problem. According to the device searching method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, when a user cannot find an electronic device that is not used, the user can find the electronic device by himself or herself; other devices available to the user can send an indication to the device to be searched, so that the device to be searched can actively send its own location indication information to the devices available to the user, and therefore, a condition that the user spends a long time to search the electronic device with no clues in head can be avoided. The embodiments of the invention alsoprovide a terminal and a computer readable storage medium. With the device searching method, the terminal and the computer readable storage medium of the invention adopted, when the user needs to usea device that has not been used for a long time, the user can find the device easily and quickly, and user experience can be met.