diff --git a/.github/workflows/verify-app.yml b/.github/workflows/verify-app.yml
index afe87ad0dd..39b3ec3cd6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/verify-app.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/verify-app.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Unit tests
         run: yarn test
-  
+
   instance-version:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [lint, flow, unit-tests]
@@ -105,11 +105,10 @@ jobs:
           instance-url: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_DHIS2_INSTANCES_BASE_URL }}/ca-test-dev
           username: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_DHIS2_USERNAME }}
           password: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_DHIS2_PASSWORD }}
-  
+
   cypress-dev:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: instance-version
-    container: cypress/browsers:node14.7.0-chrome84
     strategy:
       # when one test fails, DO NOT cancel the other
       # containers, because this will kill Cypress processes
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ jobs:
           node-version: 14.x
 
       - name: Cypress run
-        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v4
+        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v6
         with:
           record: true
           parallel: true
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/NewPage/index.js b/cypress/e2e/NewPage/index.js
index 27ed7ce40b..39ef495cd2 100644
--- a/cypress/e2e/NewPage/index.js
+++ b/cypress/e2e/NewPage/index.js
@@ -1,16 +1,7 @@
-import { Given, When, Then, defineStep as And, BeforeStep } from '@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor';
+import { Given, When, Then, defineStep as And } from '@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor';
 import moment from 'moment';
 import { getCurrentYear } from '../../support/date';
 import '../sharedSteps';
-import { filterInstanceVersion } from '../../support/tagUtils';
-
-let skip;
-BeforeStep(function callback(...props) {
-    console.log('Before hook from global.js');
-    console.log('Props', props);
-    console.log('This', this);
-    filterInstanceVersion(skip);
-});
 
 And('you are on the default registration page', () => {
     cy.visit('/#/new');
diff --git a/cypress/e2e/sharedSteps.js b/cypress/e2e/sharedSteps.js
index 8f419b639b..720368202d 100644
--- a/cypress/e2e/sharedSteps.js
+++ b/cypress/e2e/sharedSteps.js
@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@ import {
     Given,
     When,
     Then,
-    defineStep as And,
+    defineStep as And, Before,
 } from '@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor';
+import { filterInstanceVersion } from '../support/tagUtils';
+
+Before(function callback() {
+    filterInstanceVersion(() => this.skip());
+});
 
 Given('you are in the main page with no selections made', () => {
     cy.visit('/#/');
diff --git a/cypress/support/tagUtils/filterInstanceVersion.js b/cypress/support/tagUtils/filterInstanceVersion.js
index b8b0c867b8..f7b933cd8e 100644
--- a/cypress/support/tagUtils/filterInstanceVersion.js
+++ b/cypress/support/tagUtils/filterInstanceVersion.js
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ export const filterInstanceVersion = (skip) => {
             return test;
         });
 
-    cy.log(`Instance version: ${currentInstanceVersion}`);
-    cy.log(`Test version: ${versionTags.map(versionTag => versionTag[0]).join(', ')}`);
-
-    !shouldRun && skip();
+    if (!shouldRun) {
+        skip();
+    }
 };