Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a screen display control method and device, and a terminal. The method comprises: detecting whether a control operation performed on a terminal matches a pre-determined transition operation; if so, acquiring at least two display content items corresponding to the control operation, wherein at least one of the display content items is a display content item corresponding to the control operation; and respectively displaying the at least two display content items using different display screens. The above solution ensures that when a user is using the main function of an application, and needs to pause the main function in order to use another auxiliary function thereof, the user can conveniently switch to the other auxiliary function of the application without having to turn off the main function. In other words, the invention does not affect the use of other auxiliary functions of the application and reduces the return time of the main function, thereby facilitating resuming of the main function and improving the user experience.