Good accommodation is an important part of the human eyes visual function, which can provide us clear visual images in different distances. Monofocal intraocular lens (IOL) can not meet patients with postoperative needs of middle to near distance vision. Multifocal IOL makes use of special optical design, distributing the entered light to far, middle and near different focuses to provide full range of vision; While accommodative IOL uses accommodation principle similar to the human lens, which changes the optical nodes through forward and backward translocation of the optic part of IOL in the capsular bag so as to achieve the purpose not only to see far but also to see near. In this paper, the characteristics, clinical applications, especially postoperative effects and possible visual symptoms of multifocal and accommodative IOLs are reviewed.