--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1703 og:image:height: 958 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joan Rivers Promotes iPhone 6 on Facebook From Beyond the Grave > Sponsored content. 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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. 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