An authentication method and an electronic device, the method including receiving a touch operation on an icon of a first application, collecting a biological feature of a user in response to the touch operation, comparing the collected biological feature with a biological feature bound to the first application, where the first application is bound to at least one biological feature, each biological feature is bound to a user account of the first application, each user account is corresponding to a resource directory, when the comparison result indicates that the collected biological feature matches a first biological feature of the at least one biological feature, determining a first user account bound to the first biological feature, and logging in to the first application based on the first user account, and loading information stored in a first resource directory corresponding to the first user account.