A BA frame transmission method comprises: receiving, by a receiving device, at least one PPDU sent by at least one transmitting device, where the PPDU includes at least one MPDU; and generating a BA frame according to a receiving status of the at least one MPDU in the at least one PPDU sent by each of the at least one transmitting device, and sending the BA frame to the at least one transmitting device, where the BA frame includes BA information corresponding to each of the at least one transmitting device, the BA information includes a block acknowledgement bitmap field and a bitmap length indicator, the bitmap length indicator is used to indicate a length of the block acknowledgement bitmap field, and the bitmap length indicator is carried in a block acknowledgement starting sequence control field included in the BA information corresponding to the transmitting device in the BA frame.