The embodiment of the invention discloses a picture loading method and device, relates to the field of communication and aims at solving the problem that a screen gets stuck during picture loading due to too many processes in the prior art and the problem of FC abnormity produced by OOM abnormity. According to the embodiment, when sliding operation on the touch screen stops, it is determined that all pictures on the current screen are pictures to be loaded, and the problem that the screen gets stuck during picture loading is solved. It is determined whether the loaded pictures are stored in a cache region or not, a thread in a thread pool is called to load the to-be-loaded pictures stored in the cache region if the loaded pictures are stored in the cache region, the thread in the thread pool is called to load the to-be-loaded pictures downloaded from a network if the loaded pictures are not stored in the cache region, and the problem of the FC abnormity produced by the OOM, is solved.