A contact information management method, an apparatus and a terminal are disclosed in the present invention. By the present invention, the contacts are bound with different operation systems of a terminal according to security levels, communication information of an operation system with higher security level is forbidden to be displayed on an operation system with lower security level, that is, after a certain contact is bound with an operation system with higher security level, if the current operation system is in a lower security level, only short messages or incoming calls will be displayed and other information corresponding to the short messages or the incoming calls will not be displayed. Therefore, the security of user contact information is protected safely and the low security of managing contact information in prior art is solved effectively.