From bd82f8c4fc4a2abefc40692581c75230d90eacd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Hoefler <61934744+phofl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 23:30:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update config_init.py

---
 pandas/core/config_init.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/config_init.py b/pandas/core/config_init.py
index bdbab78a443de..a8b63f97141c2 100644
--- a/pandas/core/config_init.py
+++ b/pandas/core/config_init.py
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ def register_converter_cb(key) -> None:
 with cf.config_prefix("future"):
     cf.register_option(
         "infer_string",
-        True,
+        False,
         "Whether to infer sequence of str objects as pyarrow string "
         "dtype, which will be the default in pandas 3.0 "
         "(at which point this option will be deprecated).",