We've received a request to add a programmatic way to close EUI tooltips: #5883

I've opted to close the previous issue and open this new one as a feature request. There was a fair bit of conversation about use cases including programmatic closures and removing focus from buttons with tooltips. My last comment to the original post was that the EUI team would explore a programmatic means to close tooltips, but that removing focus from elements (buttons primarily) that fire tooltip events was not recommended.