--- title: Joan Rivers' Facebook Promotes iPhone 6 by Accident description: The posthumous post was quickly deleted canonical: https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-21T20:25:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:32.596Z og:title: Joan Rivers' Facebook Promotes iPhone 6 og:description: The comedian icon appeared to post from beyond the grave og:url: https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5ec47e2cac77f5/6986a48b55a8597c84a82b2b/4645124511.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 92nd Street Y Presents: An Evening With Joan And Melissa Rivers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joan Rivers' Facebook Promotes iPhone 6 twitter:description: The comedian icon appeared to post from beyond the grave twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5ec47e2cac77f5/6986a48b55a8597c84a82b2b/4645124511.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joan Rivers Promotes iPhone 6 on Facebook From Beyond the Grave ## Video: Apple's Iconic Product Releases of the Past [Watch (HLS stream): Apple's Iconic Product Releases of the Past](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dgZyU3Dp.m3u8) (1:41)  _Published 2014-09-08. Take A Look Back at Apple's 7 Biggest Product Releases_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 21, 2014 8:25 PM UTC  The late Joan Rivers in New York, Jan. 22, 2014. The late Joan Rivers in New York, Jan. 22, 2014.D Dipasupil—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 21, 2014 8:25 PM UTC The late comedy icon Joan Rivers, who died Sept. 4 at age 81 from complications from throat surgery, gave her fans one last surprise on Friday when her [Facebook account promoted the new Apple iPhone 6](http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/19/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-instagram/?utm%5Fmedium=twitter&utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed) with a posthumous post. The update called the new iPhone 6 a “great achievement in design” before it was quickly removed. Sites like TMZ speculate that the post was the result of a deal with Apple negotiated before her death. As TIME critic Richard Corliss [wrote in his obituary](http://time.com/3212274/joan-rivers-dead-81-remembrance/), “If Joan Rivers can no longer talk, she deserves to be talked about forever.” Facebook seems to be doing its part to make that happen. Here’s the full text of the post: --- > “” --- \[[_TMZ_](http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/19/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-instagram/?utm%5Fmedium=twitter&utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/"},"headline":"Joan Rivers Promotes iPhone 6 on Facebook From Beyond the Grave","datePublished":"2014-09-21T20:25:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:41:32.596Z","description":"The posthumous post was quickly deleted","url":"https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Apple","celebrities","viral","facebook","iPhone 6","joan rivers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5ec47e2cac77f5/6986a48b55a8597c84a82b2b/4645124511.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5ec47e2cac77f5/6986a48b55a8597c84a82b2b/4645124511.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"92nd Street Y Presents: An Evening With Joan And Melissa Rivers","caption":"92nd Street Y Presents: An Evening With Joan And Melissa Rivers","creditText":"D Dipasupil—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/","name":"Joan Rivers Promotes iPhone 6 on Facebook From Beyond the Grave"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Apple's Iconic Product Releases of the Past","description":"Take A Look Back at Apple's 7 Biggest Product Releases","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dgZyU3Dp/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-08T18:16:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dgZyU3Dp.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/","duration":"PT1M41S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```