A method for controlling random access is provided according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, which is applied to an electronic device. The method includes determining whether a count value of a beam failure indication counter is greater than or equal to a preset value in response to receiving a beam failure instance indication by a medium access control layer from a physical layer; and initiating random access in response to the count value of the beam failure indication counter being greater than or equal to the preset value, and performing a preset operation to avoid triggering further random access during the random access. The embodiments of the present disclosure may prevent the user device from occupying resources for contention-free random access for a long time.