This application provides a beam failure recovery method and an apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives configuration information of a cell, where the configuration information of the cell includes M beam failure detection resource groups and M candidate beam resource groups, the M beam failure detection resource groups are in a one-to-one correspondence with the M candidate beam resource groups, and M is an integer. When M is an integer greater than 1, and a beam failure occurs in at least one of the M beam failure detection resource groups, the terminal device sends, by using a first media access control control element (MAC CE), beam failure recovery information corresponding to the cell. According to the beam failure recovery method provided in this application, beam failure recovery can be performed in time.