The present disclosure discloses a method for detecting indication information, including: determining a carrier/narrowband position and a time-domain position where indication information is located; in which the indication information is configured to indicate whether a user equipment (UE) monitors a paging message or a downlink control channel that indicates the paging message, on associated one or more paging occasions (POs); and detecting the indication information on the determined carrier/narrowband position and the time-domain position, and determining, according to the indication information, whether to monitor the paging message or the downlink control channel on the one or more POs.