Whereby SDK & Product Updates July 2025

We’re always looking for ways to make your experience on Whereby faster and more intuitive. This month, we’ve updated the metrics available in the Insights suite, added a new URL parameter, updated our documentation, and, of course, made changes to our SDKs.

Here’s everything you need to know

New metrics on Insights

To help teams better understand how their session transcriptions and live captions minutes are being used, we’ve included a metric for ‘Transcription minutes’ directly to your usage graph on Insights.

This number is a combined metric of billable unmuted participant minutes for session transcriptions and live captions. Although it’s a small change, this figure can help with predicting usage and billing.

To see what your current transcription minutes are,

• Log in to your Whereby Embedded dashboard.

• On the left side of your screen, tap on ‘Insights’.

• You’ll see this metric on the usage graph under ‘Overview’

You can filter this view to a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual breakdown. Alternatively, download your usage as a CSV file for a more comprehensive breakdown.

Note: This feature is only available to users on a Whereby Embedded account.

New documentation for embedding Whereby into Android Webview

We've updated our documentation on how to embed Whereby in an Android WebView. To simplify things, we now point directly to a new public demo app repository on GitHub.

It includes a complete example, including how to handle media permissions and file sharing for both Activity and Fragment use cases. See what’s new here.

An even more minimal toolbar

You can now choose to remove the labels underneath the toolbar in your Whereby Embedded rooms with a URL parameter. This update is perfect for teams or practitioners who want to create a cleaner, more minimal experience for their users.

To instantly hide or show these labels, use the URL parameter toolbarText=<on|off>. They can also be used as a web component attribute when using <whereby-embed> elements. See more URL parameters here.

SDK changelog

@whereby.com/react-native-sdk@0.8.0

Minor Changes

• 10605f6: Upgrade react native webview

For a full list of changes and their commits, check out our SDK repo changelog.

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- Team Whereby