Move figure away from first page, in two-column mode

I'm trying to suppress any floats, tables and figures, from appearing on the first page in a two-column ieeetran document:

Furthermore, IEEE journals never place floats in the first column of the first page and rarely (if ever) do they do so in the second column of the first page. Middle in-text placement (“here”) is not used.

But so far I have no luck.Actually, I haven't even been able to get the \suppressfloats command to work at all in this set-up, on any page.

Does \suppressfloats even work with ieeetran?
Does \suppressfloats even work with twocloumn?

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Edit
After having done some testing with the bare_jrnl.tex template, I've come to some conclusions, but not nearly enough to satisfy me:

• \suppressfloats does seem to work with ieeetran
• The conditions of work is not clear to me, i.e. it seems to be dependent on both the amount of text, sections, subsections, placement of the command (even tough they appear on the same page), placement of float in text, etc.
• placing \suppressfloats just after \begin{document} never seems to work

Even so, I still can't get latex to move my float in my original document.Suggestions that I could move the float, in text, away is kind of hassle if it moves to far away (like different (sub)sections in different files, etc.).