How to prevent figures from appearing at the top of a page?

Question

Why is it that, when I insert my figure with \begin{figure}, it is placed at the beginning of the paper ?

Answer 1

You need to specify [H] like the code below

\begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{image.png}
    \caption{Caption.}
    \label{fig:image1}
\end{figure}

Add \usepackage{float}

Answer 2

So, the way i fixed this was by using center instead of figure:

\begin{center}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{image.png}
\caption{Caption.}
\label{fig:image1}
\end{center}