The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for adjusting a network speed of an application of an intelligent terminal and the intelligent terminal, and aims to more reasonably or intelligently allocate the network speeds of a variety of applications when a user of the intelligent terminal simultaneously starts the variety of applications. The method comprises: when the plurality of applications are connected to a network, acquiring an application network speed priority list and a real-time network speed of each application in the plurality of applications; and according to the application network speed priority list and the real-time network speed of each application in the plurality of applications, acquiring a relatively high network speed for the application with a relatively high preset priority in the plurality of applications. According to the technical scheme provided by the present invention, network speed control can be implemented on the side of the intelligent terminal; when the plurality of applications in the intelligent terminal are simultaneously connected to the network and resources are limited, the relatively high network speed can be allocated for the application with the relatively high preset priority, for example, a relatively high downloading speed is obtained, and the network speed of each application is optimized to enable the network speed of each application to meet expectation of the user, so that the experience of the user when using the intelligent terminal is enhanced.