The invention provides a display method and a terminal. The method comprises the steps: judging whether unprocessed information corresponding to M user identity identification cards exists in a targetapplication program or not; if the unprocessed information corresponding to the M user identity identification cards exists in the target application program, displaying M pieces of unprocessed prompt information on an icon of the target application program in turn, wherein the M pieces of unprocessed prompt information are in one-to-one correspondence with the M user identity identification cards, each piece of unprocessed prompt information in the M pieces of unprocessed prompt information is used for prompting unprocessed information of the corresponding user identity identification card,and M is an integer greater than 1. According to the invention, the user can directly determine the card corresponding to the unprocessed information based on the M pieces of unprocessed prompt information, so that the operation can be simplified.