The invention discloses a contact information management method and apparatus, and a terminal. According to the method and apparatus, and the terminal, contacts are respectively bound to different operating systems of the terminal according to the security levels, and the operating systems with low security levels cannot display communication information of the operating systems with high security levels, namely, after a certain contact is bound to the operating system with high security level, merely an existed text message or an incoming call is displayed in the condition that the current operating system is the operating system with low security level, and other information corresponding to the text message or the incoming call is not displayed. Therefore, the security of contact information of users can be well protected, and the problem of low security of contact information management by the terminal in the prior art is effectively solved.