Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and device. The method includes: A first device determines first control information, where the first control information includes first indication information and second indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a state of preconfigured-resource transmission, and the state includes successful transmission, unsuccessful transmission, scheduling retransmission, or preconfigured-resource retransmission; and the second indication information is used to indicate whether the first device transmits first information, and the first information includes higher layer data and/or preconfigured uplink resource reconfiguration information. The first device sends the first control information to a second device. According to the method and device provided in the embodiments of this application, a network coverage capability can be improved, and the method and device may be applied to the internet of things, for example, MTC, IoT, LTE-M, or M2M.