A Bluetooth communication method is disclosed, and relates to the field of short-range wireless communications technologies. The method includes: A terminal receives a play operation performed by a user on first audio data. The terminal sends first indication information to a Bluetooth device when a service type of the first audio data is a first service type, where the first indication information is used by the Bluetooth device to set a buffer time length for the audio data to first duration. The Bluetooth device receives the first audio data sent by the terminal via Bluetooth, and buffers the first audio data. The Bluetooth device starts to play the buffered first audio data when the buffer time length for the first audio data reaches the first duration. In this way, the terminal can perform targeted delay control on audio data playback of the Bluetooth device in different application scenarios.