Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for detecting a wearable device, and the wearable device, where the method includes: detecting a value of a distance between the wearable device and a user； determining whether the value of the distance between the wearable device and the user exceeds a preset distance threshold； if the value of the distance between the wearable device and the user does not exceed the preset distance threshold, detecting a body feature value of the user within a preset time period； and if the body feature value of the user does not exceed a preset threshold range of the body feature value of the user, determining that the user has worn the wearable device.
