The present disclosure provides a device control method and apparatus. The device control method includes: connecting to a current LAN and searching a device in the LAN; determining whether there is a created device management group corresponding to the device or more, wherein the device management group corresponds to one or more devices; when there is a created device management group, determining whether there is an account bound to the device management group; and when there is no account bound to the device management group, binding a current account of a user to the device management group, thereby obtaining control of the device corresponding to the device management group according to a binding relationship between the current account of the user and the device management group.