diff --git a/base/compiler/ssair/inlining.jl b/base/compiler/ssair/inlining.jl
index 128ce4d21968e..dbe55e2757c0c 100644
--- a/base/compiler/ssair/inlining.jl
+++ b/base/compiler/ssair/inlining.jl
@@ -593,14 +593,20 @@ function rewrite_apply_exprargs!(ir::IRCode, idx::Int, argexprs::Vector{Any}, at
             def_atypes = sv.result_vargs
         else
             def_atypes = Any[]
-            for p in widenconst(atypes[i]).parameters
-                if isa(p, DataType) && isdefined(p, :instance)
-                    # replace singleton types with their equivalent Const object
-                    p = Const(p.instance)
-                elseif isconstType(p)
-                    p = Const(p.parameters[1])
+            if isa(atypes[i], Const)
+                for p in atypes[i].val
+                    push!(def_atypes, Const(p))
+                end
+            else
+                for p in widenconst(atypes[i]).parameters
+                    if isa(p, DataType) && isdefined(p, :instance)
+                        # replace singleton types with their equivalent Const object
+                        p = Const(p.instance)
+                    elseif isconstType(p)
+                        p = Const(p.parameters[1])
+                    end
+                    push!(def_atypes, p)
                 end
-                push!(def_atypes, p)
             end
         end
         # now push flattened types into new_atypes and getfield exprs into new_argexprs
diff --git a/test/inline.jl b/test/inline.jl
index 621e1cf6e47c9..04cb23d9626d9 100644
--- a/test/inline.jl
+++ b/test/inline.jl
@@ -160,3 +160,40 @@ function f_ifelse(x)
 end
 # 2 for now because the compiler leaves a GotoNode around
 @test_broken length(code_typed(f_ifelse, (String,))[1][1].code) <= 2
+
+# Test that inlining of _apply properly hits the inference cache
+@noinline cprop_inline_foo1() = (1, 1)
+@noinline cprop_inline_foo2() = (2, 2)
+function cprop_inline_bar(x...)
+    if x === (1, 1, 1, 1)
+        return x
+    else
+        # What you put here doesn't really matter,
+        # the point is to prevent inlining when
+        # x is not known to be (1, 1, 1, 1)
+        println(stdout, "Hello")
+        println(stdout, "World")
+        println(stdout, "Hello")
+        println(stdout, "World")
+        println(stdout, "Hello")
+        println(stdout, "World")
+        println(stdout, "Hello")
+        println(stdout, "World")
+        println(stdout, "Hello")
+        println(stdout, "World")
+        println(stdout, "Hello")
+        println(stdout, "World")
+        return x
+    end
+    x
+end
+
+function cprop_inline_baz1()
+    return cprop_inline_bar(cprop_inline_foo1()..., cprop_inline_foo1()...)
+end
+@test length(code_typed(cprop_inline_baz1, ())[1][1].code) == 1
+
+function cprop_inline_baz2()
+    return cprop_inline_bar(cprop_inline_foo2()..., cprop_inline_foo2()...)
+end
+@test length(code_typed(cprop_inline_baz2, ())[1][1].code) == 2