The invention discloses an application freezing method. The method comprises the steps that when target application meets the preset conditions, a system resource occupied by the target application is isolated, the target application is isolated from a system framework, a freezing signal is sent to a process group of the target application, and the target application is in a freezing state. In this way, before freezing is conducted on the process group of the target application, the system resource occupied by the target application is isolated firstly, then the target application is isolated from the system framework, the freezing signal is sent to the process group of the target application finally, and freezing is achieved. After the target application is frozen, the target application does not occupy the system resource any more, the resource waste is avoided, resource consumption such as electric quantity consumption and flow consumption which are not expected by a user is reduced in use, and the user experience is improved.