diff --git a/R/plotImage.R b/R/plotImage.R
index af48765..af979e4 100644
--- a/R/plotImage.R
+++ b/R/plotImage.R
@@ -221,4 +221,8 @@ setMethod("plotImage", "SpatialData", \(x, i=1, j=1, k=NULL, ch=NULL, c=NULL, cl
 #' @export
 #' @rdname plotImage
 #' @importFrom ggplot2 ggplot scale_y_reverse coord_fixed
-plotSpatialData <- \() ggplot() + coord_fixed() + .theme 
+plotSpatialData <- \() ggplot() + scale_y_reverse() + coord_fixed() + .theme 
+# `annotation_raster` plots the array the same way it is printed, i.e., with the
+# row 1 at the top, which means we need to flip the y-axis to have the correct axis labels.
+# We tried flipping the image itself but it means everything gets out of alignement if
+# the user sets `scale_y_reverse()` themselves.
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