According the documentation is is possible to turn off the functionality just doing $(\'body\').off(\'.alert.data-api\').
In the case of tooltip I tried the
I struggled too with this, but I came up with a solution! In my case I use Jquery Sortable which is ofcourse annoying when you have tooltips flying around!
So I made a variable
var sort = '0`;
And since almost every tooltip has an init() function, I created
if(window.sort!='1') { // So I'm not sorting
init.tooltip();
}
So, this can be the easiest enable/disable function!