A method for recognizing an Off-screen gesture, wherein an Off-screen gesture is a touch gesture input by a user on a touch screen of a mobile terminal in an Off-screen dormant state in case that an Off-screen gesture function is switched on, characterized in that the method comprises: monitoring an on/off state of each of preset Off-screen gestures in an application layer, wherein the on/off state of each of the preset Off-screen gestures is determined according to a return value of a switch control corresponding to each of the preset Off-screen gestures in an Off-screen gesture interface; issuing the on/off state to a driver layer to enable the driver layer to switch on or switch off an Off-screen gesture switch configured in the driver layer according to the on/off state, wherein the Off-screen gesture switch is configured to switch on or off the preset Off-screen gesture; determining whether a switched-on preset Off-screen gesture is matched with a preset Off-screen gesture in a preset confusable gesture group, the preset confusable gesture group being a set of preset Off-screen gestures which are likely to be misrecognized, the preset confusable gesture group being preset by a manufacturer of the mobile terminal before the mobile terminal is delivered, and the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture being a preset Off-screen gesture that is switched-on based on the corresponding Off-screen gesture switch; when the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture is matched with a preset Off-screen gesture in the preset confusable gesture group, determining whether remaining preset Off-screen gestures in the preset confusable gesture group are switched on; when the remaining preset Off-screen gestures in the preset confusable gesture group are not switched on, determining to change a recognition condition for the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture; and when determining to change the recognition condition for the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture, replacing, with a preset second recognition condition, a first recognition condition for the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture in the driver layer, and recognizing a gesture type of an Off-screen gesture input by the user according to the second recognition condition. monitoring an on/off state of each of preset Off-screen gestures in an application layer, wherein the on/off state of each of the preset Off-screen gestures is determined according to a return value of a switch control corresponding to each of the preset Off-screen gestures in an Off-screen gesture interface; issuing the on/off state to a driver layer to enable the driver layer to switch on or switch off an Off-screen gesture switch configured in the driver layer according to the on/off state, wherein the Off-screen gesture switch is configured to switch on or off the preset Off-screen gesture; determining whether a switched-on preset Off-screen gesture is matched with a preset Off-screen gesture in a preset confusable gesture group, the preset confusable gesture group being a set of preset Off-screen gestures which are likely to be misrecognized, the preset confusable gesture group being preset by a manufacturer of the mobile terminal before the mobile terminal is delivered, and the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture being a preset Off-screen gesture that is switched-on based on the corresponding Off-screen gesture switch; when the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture is matched with a preset Off-screen gesture in the preset confusable gesture group, determining whether remaining preset Off-screen gestures in the preset confusable gesture group are switched on; when the remaining preset Off-screen gestures in the preset confusable gesture group are not switched on, determining to change a recognition condition for the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture; and when determining to change the recognition condition for the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture, replacing, with a preset second recognition condition, a first recognition condition for the switched-on preset Off-screen gesture in the driver layer, and recognizing a gesture type of an Off-screen gesture input by the user according to the second recognition condition.