Idiomatic way to use Tooltips with buttons for touch vs hover devices?

Great question! You're right that the default tooltip behavior can feel awkward on touch devices where tapping shows a tooltip that just sticks around.

While I can't find documented support for a disabled prop on the Sanity UI Tooltip component, there are a few approaches you can take to achieve touch-friendly tooltip behavior:

1. Use CSS pointer media queries to conditionally render the tooltip:

import {Button, Tooltip} from '@sanity/ui'
import {useEffect, useState} from 'react'

function TooltipButton() {
  const [showTooltip, setShowTooltip] = useState(true)
  
  useEffect(() => {
    // Check if device has a coarse pointer (touch)
    const isCoarsePointer = window.matchMedia('(pointer: coarse)').matches
    setShowTooltip(!isCoarsePointer)
  }, [])

  return showTooltip ? (
    <Tooltip content="Helpful information">
      <Button text="Click me" />
    </Tooltip>
  ) : (
    <Button text="Click me" />
  )
}

2. Wrap conditionally based on pointer capability:

const isCoarsePointer = window.matchMedia('(pointer: coarse)').matches
const button = <Button text="Click me" />

return isCoarsePointer ? button : (
  <Tooltip content="Helpful information">
    {button}
  </Tooltip>
)

3. Consider alternative patterns for touch devices:

Since tooltips are hover-based UI patterns that don't translate well to touch, you might want to:

• Make button labels more descriptive so they don't need tooltips
• Use a separate help icon that opens a popover on tap
• Add contextual help text that's always visible on touch devices

The key insight is that @media (pointer: coarse) detects touch devices, while @media (pointer: fine) detects devices with precise pointing (like mice). This is more reliable than user-agent sniffing and aligns with how modern responsive design handles input modalities.

Without access to Sanity Studio's internal implementation, I can't confirm exactly how the publish button handles this, but the pointer media query approach is the standard web platform solution for this use case.