The invention relates to an information deletion method and device, and relates to the technical field of information processing. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting a first sliding operation aiming at a sliding page, wherein the sliding page is used for displaying first information; obtaining second information according to the first sliding operation, wherein the second information is read information in the first information; and deleting the second information from a display queue of the sliding page. According to the method, the read second information is obtained from the first information displayed on the sliding page is obtained when a the first sliding operation is detected by a terminal in the sliding page, and the second information is deleted from the display queue of the sliding page, so that the terminal can automatically delete the information which is read by the users or in which the users are not interested, the quantity of information cached in the current page is decreased and the memoru occupation of the terminal is decreased.