An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a housing, a plurality of physical keys arranged on the housing, a memory and a processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving an input generated by activation of two or more of a plurality of physical keys, identifying an operation state of the electronic device based on reception of the input, when the input is received in a first state in which a screen is displayed, executing a first operation related to the displayed screen in response to the received input, and when the input is received in a second state in which an application is processing audio/video (A/V) data, executing a second operation of initiating recording of the A/V data using a memory in response to the received input.