The invention provides a control method and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps that under the condition that a target area including first texture information is displayed on a currentinterface, second texture information collected by a camera is acquired; under the condition that the first texture information is matched with the second texture information, display content of the target area is updated into a target identifier; the moving track of the target identifier is acquired; control operation corresponding to the moving track is executed, wherein the first texture information comprises at least one of palm print information and knuckle print information. Thus, user operation can be effectively simplified.