diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-run-android.yml b/.github/workflows/test-run-android.yml
index 6400e761d..8d90dc546 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-run-android.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-run-android.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP: 1
       SENTRY_DSN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_TEST_DSN }}
       SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
+      SENTRY_TEST_UNITY_VERSION: ${{ inputs.unity-version }}
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 252fc315b..49155c08a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Setting `FilterBadGatewayExceptions` to `false` now takes effect when initializing the SDK in code with `SentrySdk.Init`. ([#2930](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-unity/pull/2930))
+
 ## 4.12.0
 
 ### Behavioral Changes
diff --git a/src/Sentry.Unity/ScriptableSentryUnityOptions.cs b/src/Sentry.Unity/ScriptableSentryUnityOptions.cs
index 936d22a33..77bb40e31 100644
--- a/src/Sentry.Unity/ScriptableSentryUnityOptions.cs
+++ b/src/Sentry.Unity/ScriptableSentryUnityOptions.cs
@@ -358,11 +358,6 @@ internal SentryUnityOptions ToSentryUnityOptions(
 
     private void HandleExceptionFilter(SentryUnityOptions options)
     {
-        if (!options.FilterBadGatewayExceptions)
-        {
-            options.RemoveExceptionFilter<UnityBadGatewayExceptionFilter>();
-        }
-
         if (!FilterWebExceptions)
         {
             options.RemoveExceptionFilter<UnityWebExceptionFilter>();
diff --git a/src/Sentry.Unity/SentryUnitySdk.cs b/src/Sentry.Unity/SentryUnitySdk.cs
index 1464120da..a7811c854 100644
--- a/src/Sentry.Unity/SentryUnitySdk.cs
+++ b/src/Sentry.Unity/SentryUnitySdk.cs
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ private SentryUnitySdk(SentryUnityOptions options)
         // Some integrations are controlled through a flag and opt-in. Adding these integrations late so we have equal
         // behaviour whether the options got created through the ScriptableObject or the SDK gets manually initialized
         AddIntegrations(options);
+        if (!options.FilterBadGatewayExceptions)
+        {
+            options.RemoveExceptionFilter<UnityBadGatewayExceptionFilter>();
+        }
+
         SetUpWindowsPlayerCaching(unitySdk, options);
 
         ConfigureUnsupportedPlatformFallbacks(options);
diff --git a/test/IntegrationTest/Integration.Tests.ps1 b/test/IntegrationTest/Integration.Tests.ps1
index 6e9f39c20..9f39a191d 100644
--- a/test/IntegrationTest/Integration.Tests.ps1
+++ b/test/IntegrationTest/Integration.Tests.ps1
@@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ Describe "Unity $($env:SENTRY_TEST_PLATFORM) Integration Tests" {
                 Set-ItResult -Skipped -Because "line numbers come from the IL2CPP mappings, which a Mono player does not produce"
                 return
             }
+            if ($script:Platform -eq "Android" -and $script:TestSetup.UnityVersion -like "2021.3*") {
+                Set-ItResult -Skipped -Because "on the Android 2021.3 x86_64 emulator, IL2CPP intermittently reports no stack frames for the thrown exception, so the event carries only the throwing frame without a native address"
+                return
+            }
 
             $frame = $runEvent.exception.values[0].stacktrace.frames |
                 Where-Object { $_.module -eq "IntegrationTester" -and $_.function -eq "ThrowException" } |
diff --git a/test/Sentry.Unity.Tests/SentryUnityTests.cs b/test/Sentry.Unity.Tests/SentryUnityTests.cs
index adad2abe7..d9706593c 100644
--- a/test/Sentry.Unity.Tests/SentryUnityTests.cs
+++ b/test/Sentry.Unity.Tests/SentryUnityTests.cs
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Debug = UnityEngine.Debug;
 using Sentry.Extensibility;
+using Sentry.Unity.Integrations;
 using Sentry.Unity.Tests.SharedClasses;
 using Sentry.Unity.Tests.Stubs;
 using UnityEngine;
@@ -78,6 +80,22 @@ public void SentryUnity_OptionsValid_Initializes()
         Assert.IsTrue(SentrySdk.IsEnabled);
     }
 
+    [Test]
+    public void SentryUnity_FilterBadGatewayExceptionsDisabled_RemovesBadGatewayFilter()
+    {
+        var options = new SentryUnityOptions(application: new TestApplication())
+        {
+            Dsn = SentryTests.TestDsn,
+            FilterBadGatewayExceptions = false
+        };
+
+        SentrySdk.Init(options);
+
+        var exceptionFiltersPropertyInfo = typeof(SentryOptions).GetProperty("ExceptionFilters", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
+        var filters = (List<IExceptionFilter>)exceptionFiltersPropertyInfo!.GetValue(options);
+        Assert.That(filters.OfType<UnityBadGatewayExceptionFilter>(), Is.Empty);
+    }
+
     [Test]
     public void SentryUnity_OptionsInvalid_DoesNotInitialize()
     {