Method and apparatus for setting a terminal

The present disclosure relates to a method and a terminal apparatus is provided, belonging to the field of computer technologies. The method comprising: detecting whether the terminal is in use; when detecting that the terminal is not in use, the networking application running in the background to detect the presence or absence, networking applications are applications that require the use of a network; if the detected absence of networking applications procedure, the network terminal is closed. The apparatus comprising: a first detecting module, the second detecting module and the network module closed. The present disclosure solves the problems of high emission values ​​in the case where the terminal user forget to turn off the network, to the effect of reducing the emission values ​​of the terminal.