A display screen control method and a terminal for monitoring whether a terminal satisfies a low-power running condition, where a display screen of the terminal is an organic light emitting display screen, and each pixel unit of the organic light emitting display screen includes at least one red subpixel, at least one blue subpixel, and at least one green subpixel, and decreasing a frequency of any one or two of a drive signal of the red subpixel, a drive signal of the green subpixel, and a drive signal of the blue subpixel when it is detected that the terminal satisfies the low-power running condition.