Temporary contact information adding method, apparatus and a terminal

The present invention discloses a kind of temporary contact information adding method, apparatus and a terminal belonging to the field of computer technologies. The method comprising: receiving an add request to add a temporary contact information in the display interface temporary packet; after receiving the request for adding add temporary contact information, display editing page; receiving temporary contact information in the edit page; save the temporary contact information to the display interface grouping list of temporary rather not stored in the distribution list address book in. The present invention, by adding a temporary contact information directly on the display interface of the temporary packet; solves the temporary packet list art contact while being stored in the communication list, thereby taking up the problem of storage space in the terminal; as new the temporary contact information is saved directly to the temporary grouping, so the distribution list does not save temporary contact information for the temporary packet, to the effect of reducing the terminal storage footprint.