An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display, one or more sensors including at least one biometric recognition sensor, memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the flexible display, the one or more sensors and the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to receive a first input for recognizing biometric information through the at least one biometric sensor, identify, in response to the first input, whether the first input is an input related to user authentication in a running application, perform, in response to the first input not being an input related to the user authentication in the running application, user authentication related to a state of the electronic device, based on success of the user authentication associated with the state of the electronic device, display, on the flexible display a user interface comprising at least one menu available for an execution request by receiving a second input while the first input is being held, and perform function corresponding to a menu selected using the user interface, based on the receiving of the second input while the first input is being held.