The invention discloses an application freezing method and apparatus and a terminal, which relate to the technical field of communications and can solve the problem of inconvenient user operation caused by the fact that a frozen application can be accessed only after being unfrozen. The method comprises the steps of freezing an application which meets a freezing condition in a first system; if the frozen application in the first system is not installed in a second system, obtaining installation information of the frozen application from the first system, and generating the frozen application in the second system; and setting a right of the frozen application in the second system to ensure that the terminal can execute a function of the frozen application according to the right when a user accesses the frozen application in the second system. The application freezing method and apparatus are suitable for an application freezing process.