diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a8b7b1019f..0c8c4ab142 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 * `ggplotly()` now converts `stat_ecdf()` properly. (#2065)
 * `ggplotly()` now correctly handles `geom_tile()` with no `fill` aesthetic. (#2063)
-
+* Fixed an issue with translating `GGally::ggcorr()` via `ggplotly()`. (#2012)
 
 # 4.10.0
 
diff --git a/R/ggplotly.R b/R/ggplotly.R
index acaceee702..44aaf73ba9 100644
--- a/R/ggplotly.R
+++ b/R/ggplotly.R
@@ -1390,10 +1390,13 @@ gdef2trace <- function(gdef, theme, gglayout) {
     rng <- range(gdef$bar$value)
     gdef$bar$value <- scales::rescale(gdef$bar$value, from = rng)
     gdef$key$.value <- scales::rescale(gdef$key$.value, from = rng)
+    vals <- lapply(gglayout[c("xaxis", "yaxis")], function(ax) {
+      if (identical(ax$tickmode, "auto")) ax$ticktext else ax$tickvals
+    })
     list(
-      x = with(gglayout$xaxis, if (identical(tickmode, "auto")) ticktext else tickvals)[[1]],
-      y = with(gglayout$yaxis, if (identical(tickmode, "auto")) ticktext else tickvals)[[1]],
-      # esentially to prevent this getting merged at a later point
+      x = vals[[1]][[1]],
+      y = vals[[2]][[1]],
+      # essentially to prevent this getting merged at a later point
       name = gdef$hash,
       type = "scatter",
       mode = "markers",
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-plotly-subplot.R b/tests/testthat/test-plotly-subplot.R
index bdde04fc04..e91b733cfe 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-plotly-subplot.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-plotly-subplot.R
@@ -134,10 +134,23 @@ test_that("subplot accepts a list of plots", {
   expect_true(l$layout[[sub("y", "yaxis", xaxes[[1]]$anchor)]]$domain[1] == 0)
 })
 
-test_that("ggplotly understands ggmatrix", {
+test_that("ggplotly understands GGally", {
   skip_if_not_installed("GGally")
-  L <- expect_doppelganger_built(GGally::ggpairs(iris), 
-                                 "plotly-subplot-ggmatrix")
+  expect_doppelganger(
+    GGally::ggpairs(iris), 
+    "plotly-subplot-ggmatrix"
+  )
+  d <- tibble::tibble(
+    v1 = 1:100 + rnorm(100, sd = 20), 
+    v2 = 1:100 + rnorm(100, sd = 27), 
+    v3 = rep(1, 100) + rnorm(100, sd = 1),
+    v4 = v1 ** 2,
+    v5 = v1 ** 2
+  )
+  expect_doppelganger(
+    ggcorr(data, method = c("everything", "pearson")),
+    "ggally-ggcorr"
+  )
 })
 
 test_that("annotation paper repositioning", {