The portable electronic device 200 collects (step 903) playback information. When the portable electronic device 200 does not establish a near field connection to the intelligent multimedia playback device 250 that needs to resume playback, the portable electronic device 200 views locally stored last playback information of the intelligent multimedia playback device 250. When the portable electronic device 200 and the intelligent multimedia playback device 250 that needs to resume playback are in a near field connection, the portable electronic device 200 may also view locally stored last playback information of the intelligent multimedia playback device 250. In some other implementation solutions, the portable electronic device 200 reconnects to the device, and obtains latest playback information again. In this manner of reconnecting to the device and obtaining the playback information, the playback information can be latest, and user experience can be improved.
The portable electronic device 200 opens (step 905) a video playback application, uses the playback information obtained in step 903 as an input, and resumes playing the multimedia content. For example, if a type of the multimedia content is a video, the mobile phone 407 opens Huawei Video 32 to resume playing the video. If a type of the multimedia content is an audio, the mobile phone 407 opens Music 321 to resume playing the audio.