Embodiments of this application disclose a communications method and apparatus. The method may include: determining, by a terminal device, a first signal to be sent on a first uplink carrier in a first time period, and determining a second signal to be sent on a second uplink carrier in a second time period, where when a first reference signal configuration manner is used for the second signal, a priority of the second signal is higher than a priority of the first signal, and the terminal device determines that a first symbol in the first signal is to be discarded; and the terminal device sends another symbol in the first signal other than the first symbol and the second signal to a network device, where the first time period and the second time period are adjacent in terms of time, and the second signal is a PUSCH.