If you buy an iPhone 4S now will it still have ios 6?

Is it that you will get the ios 6 for a little while and than at the settings you are forced to upgrade to ios 7? Because I hate ios 7 a lot. But also Is it that if you don't upgrade most of your apps will stop working? And than you can keep sticking with the ios 6 like that? Or will it eventually be automatically be installed? Please answer.

Yes, you can stay with ios6 (you just don't need to update to ios 7).

Maybe it will

They came as new on ios5, second hand is probably gonna be ios7

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