The safety and cycling stability issues of lithium-ion battery as a prevalent electrochemical energy storage device have attracted much recent attention. Lithium plating on the anode material is a common failure reason of lithium-ion battery, thus becoming a hot research area in industry. However, some common detection methods are not applied for the batteries due to the closed packed structure. Therefore, the detection of lithium plating becomes a problem in the lithium-ion battery industry. To address this issue, this review represented recent progress on lithium plating detection methods via the following aspects, i.e., building special in-situ cells, prediction according to external properties, and measurement of new physical parameters. In addition, the future developing trend was also prospected.