The present disclosure discloses a fingerprint recognition method and apparatus, and a mobile terminal, which are related to the field of information recognition technologies, and are used to reduce power consumption of the mobile terminal while implementing timely fingerprint collection. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the mobile terminal determines a first fingerprint recognition area of a touchscreen according to a first user interface, and detects a touch operation of a user on the touchscreen; activates a fingerprint recognition function of the first fingerprint recognition area when a touch position corresponding to the touch operation is located in the first fingerprint recognition area, and obtains corresponding first fingerprint information according to the touch operation; and executes at least one function when the first fingerprint information matches preset fingerprint information.