A control method for data transmission and a terminal are provided. The control method for data transmission includes: determining, when a terminal has established a user-plane bearer link with a network and before transmitting data to be transmitted, whether or not a destination address of the data to be transmitted is recorded in a pre-created address whitelist; acquiring, if the destination address of the data to be transmitted is not recorded in the address whitelist, an application identifier corresponding to the data to be transmitted, and conducting access control decision based on the application identifier to obtain a decision result; and transmitting, when the decision result indicates that transmission of the data to be transmitted is permitted, the data to be transmitted through the user-plane bearer link.