The invention provides an incoming call answer control method and apparatus based on face recognition, and a mobile terminal having the same. The incoming call answer control method based on face recognition comprises the following steps: image acquisition step: responding to an incoming call signal, and simultaneously or successively opening a camera apparatus of the mobile terminal to acquire an image; comparison and recognition step: performing comparison and recognition on the image acquired by the camera apparatus with a pre-stored face recognition sample; and incoming call answer step: automatically answering the incoming call in the case of comparison and recognition success. By adoption of the technical scheme provided by the invention, the camera apparatus of the mobile terminal is simultaneously or successively opened to acquire the image to perform the face recognition and automatically answer the incoming call, so that users can automatically answer the call when double hands are busy, dual incoming call answer modes of manual answer and automatic answer of mobile phones are realized, thereby bringing great convenience for the users, having a humanized design and having good user experience.