The invention relates to a touch screen terminal hidden unlocking method. The method includes the following steps: step 1, touching a switch button, turning on a screen of a touch screen terminal, displaying an unlocking picture, and entering a to-be-unlocked state; step 2, clicking a fixed position on the unlocking picture, wherein number of clicking times is identical with number of unlocking times set during screen locking customization; step 3, completing unlocking, wherein after entering a touch screen terminal interface when unlocking is completed, the interface only displays icons of a part of application programs, and icons of another part of application programs are hidden. A method for entering the hidden application program icons includes the following steps: step 1, clicking any position of a touch screen for one or several times to enable the hidden application program icons to appear on the screen; step 2, clicking the icons appearing on the screen to enter the application programs for other operations. Unlocking of a main screen and the hidden icons is realized mainly on the basis of the number of clicking times, so that the mode is high in safety, and interestingness for a user to operate the touch screen terminal is high.