Levitation, surface oscillations and breakup of charged droplets in quadrupole traps have applications in electrospray and ion-mass spectrometry. I shall present experiments, theory and numerical simulations on the levitation and breakup of charged ethylene glycol droplets levitated in an in-house quadrupole trap. The levitated charged droplets show degenerate structures that depend upon the charge to mass ratio of the droplets. An important application of a quadrupole trap is in studying the dynamics and breakup of a charged droplet. The surface oscillations of a sub-Rayleigh charged droplet in a quadrupole field could be explained using a viscous-potential theory. Our numerical study on the Rayleigh breakup of a charged droplet, within the perfect conductor assumption yields a method to estimate the total charge loss in Rayleigh instability. We then demonstrate that accounting for fast, but finite charge dynamics is essential to describe formation of jets in breakup of charged drops. Our own experiments on Rayleigh instability in a “loose” trap demonstrates “field influenced asymmetric, subcritical Rayleigh instability” in contrast to “field induced Rayleigh breakup” studied in the literature.