HT4623 iPad has iOS 5 and won't update to 7

Whenever I go to the software update in the setting, it claims that the software is all up to date. It says the same thing when I plug it into iTunes. Any suggestions on how to update it?

I assume this is an original iPad? If so then iOS 5.1.1 is the last release of iOS that will work with that model. You need an iPad 2 or later to run iOS 6 or 7.

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