The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for setting application property and message processing. Based on a setting instruction, an object for the setting instruction is determined. The object is a preset group including at least one application. Properties of all the applications in the group are set uniformly in accordance with the setting instruction. With the above setting process, after a message has been received, a group to which the application as the recipient of the message belongs is determined, a property common to the applications in the group is obtained and the message is processed based on the public property.