A method is applied to an electronic device. After detecting a fingerprint event, a fingerprint driver directly transmits the fingerprint event to a display driver, and the display driver further controls a display to display a first light spot based on preset first-light-spot display data. According to this solution, no layer for light spot display needs to be rendered at a logic display layer, sparing the need of reporting a fingerprint event layer by layer to the fingerprint service and then delivering light spot display data by the fingerprint service layer by layer, thereby reducing time spent on layer-by-layer event reporting and layer-by-layer display data delivery. This significantly reduces time spent on a process from finger tapping on a fingerprint detection zone to displaying of a light spot, increases a speed of responding to a fingerprint event, and reduces time of an entire fingerprint recognition process.