This review summarized the past decade’s advancements in smart anticorrosive coatings with early corrosion self-warning and self-healing capabilities，and categorized and introduced the preparation methods，design concepts，and applications of these coatings. But also， the advantages and disadvantages of micro/nano containers were analyzed. Micro/nanocontainers，with their regular and refined structures，efficiently loaded，stored，and released various functional substances，ensuring long-term coating service，which were widelyapplied in self-warning and self-healing dual-functional coatings. Smart responsive polymer-based coatings could also yield intelligent release of self-warning and self-healing moleculesvia weak covalent bonds and supramolecular interactions，which showed potential applicationbecause of their flexibility in structure design. The research on dual-function coatings withself-healing and self-warning performance was becoming extremely important in the field ofsmart coatings. Future research should aim to simplify the preparation process，to increase intelligence，and to explore new functional designs to meet practical demands.