A method and an electronic device for controlling data transmission are disclosed in the embodiment of the present invention. Data transmission may be controlled by detecting a first input operation and a second input operation; generating a first coordinate of an input point corresponding to the first input operation and a second coordinate of an input point corresponding to the second input operation; identifying the first coordinate and the second coordinate, and determining the coordinate corresponding to the first display region and the coordinate corresponding to the second display region; obtaining address information which corresponds to the coordinate corresponding to the first display region; determining file address information which corresponds to the coordinate corresponding to the second display region according to a correspondence between coordinate information and the file address information of the second electronic device; generating and sending a data transmission control instruction carrying the file address information.