Log in as admin Navigate to Plugins > Filters > Manage filters in site administration Enable Multi-language content Apply to: Content and headings Go to Administration > Plugins > Search >Manage global search In the " Search information " text area add the following HTML (in the HTML editor mode) <span class="multilang" lang="en">Text (EN)</span><span class="multilang" lang="de">Text (DE)</span> As an admin, enable “Web services for mobile devices” on Site administration ► Advanced features Create a Token in the mobile app service for any user on the site (not an admin account) Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Open the console and execute this new curl request, replacing WS_TOKEN with the token you just created and the SITE_URL with yours. curl ‘SITE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=tool_mobile_get_config&moodlewssettinglang=en&moodlewssettingfilter=true&wstoken=WS_TOKEN | python -m "json.tool" Confirm that: In the curl request response you see a field called: searchbanner The content of that field is "<p>Text (EN)<\/p>"