A positioning control method includes: determining whether a battery charge level is equal to or lower than a threshold; requesting an external device to acquire at least one positioning satellite information item according to a signal reception state of positioning satellites at a current location, from among positioning satellite information items of detectable positioning satellites, within a valid period of the positioning satellite information items, when the determining determines that the battery charge level is equal to or lower than the threshold; acquiring the at least one positioning satellite information item according to the requesting; and positioning the current location based on the acquired positioning satellite information item.