Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a fingerprint event processing method and apparatus, and a terminal, so as to resolve a problem of how to simplify operation steps of using a terminal. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a first fingerprint by using a fingerprint sensor; generating, by the terminal, a fingerprint event according to the first fingerprint; when an operation to be executed by the terminal includes an identity authentication operation, executing, by the terminal, the identity authentication operation according to the fingerprint event; and when the operation to be executed by the terminal does not include the identity authentication operation, executing, by the terminal, an operation corresponding to a first preset event according to the first preset event. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to processing of a fingerprint event.