From the outset, this might seem like basic advice that anyone who appears on any of the Bachelor franchise shows would know, but I can imagine that, regardless of what you want to do going into the situation, it might be hard to remember all of that once you have 30 eligible bachelors thrown at you and you have to start trying to get to know them.
She wasn’t able to get advice from anyone about how to handle being the lead until much later.
As Katie noted earlier in her interview, the news was announced before she’d been fully released from her duties on The Bachelor, so she still didn’t have her phone.