How can I still see the individual steps within an Action with the new update? Sometimes I like to start mid way or only do a portion of an Action, and now there doesn't seem to be a way to do that??

One thing that needs some attention in the “new” actions panel is editing an action that plays one or more other actions.

You can only see the actual action and not the other actions steps that it plays which makes a very difficult to diagnose which step in which action might be causing an issue.

Whereas in Classic Action mode you can see all the actions and when played in step by step mode see the complete process and that is not possible as far as i can tell in the “new” actions panel.

I played with this a little more, and I now think the feature request is already taken care of in the current version, as shown in the demo below. What you see me do is:

1. Click the action’s gear icon to go into Edit Action mode. 
2. Scroll down to the step in the list where you want to start playing the action, and click that step to select it; it will now be highlighted. I selected the “Transform current layer” step. 
3. Click the Play button (the right-facing triangle) that you see at the top of the Steps list. The action starts playing from the step you selected, similarly to how it works in Classic mode. 

This action has a Duplicate Current Layer step, so normally the Star 1 layer would have been duplicated. But that didn't happen here, there are still just two layers: Star 1 and Background. The Duplicate Current Layer step was skipped, as well as all action steps before that one, because I chose to start playing the action from the “Transform current layer” step in the middle of the action. 

It should all be there and discoverable, as you can see in the demo below. There should not be any need to go back to Classic mode. First, your actions are in the Yours section. If you already have the actions list set to Yours, then all you have to do is hover the pointer over the action and you will see a gear and an ellipsis (…) menu. This gives you not one, but two ways to switch into editing mode: Either click the gear icon to go directly into Edit Action mode, or choose Edit Action from the ellipsis menu; they do the same thing.

Again, as you see in the demo below, once you’re in editing mode, all of the options that were in previous versions of Photoshop, such as editing or inserting steps, should be available. The action steps are listed below the action options, so to see the steps on a smaller display you might have to scroll down the Actions panel. You can expand any step to see and edit the same step details you saw in earlier versions of Photoshop; again, the editing options for a step appear when you hover the pointer over that step. When you’re done editing, click the back button at the top to back out to the list of actions.

If you prefer using context menus (a.k.a. right-clicking) instead of looking for buttons, you can right-click an action or step to see the editing options menu.

I personally think the improvements are great, editing is more straightforward, there is no more need to tediously switch in and out of Button mode like we used to, and there are new features like being able to add an icon and description. Overall I think they did a great job modernizing Actions.

​@jane-e Ah, I thought they’d fixed that now.

​@megand64229350 Let’s see what happens then. If nothing happens in a few days, give a shout here. Then this can be locked and you can repost in Feature Requests. I think a simple copy-paste will do fine, it’s pretty clear what the request is.

There is, revert to “classic actions” from the fly-out menu.

With the new menu, you can click the gear icon to get the individual steps and edit them. But you’re right, there doesn’t seem to be a way to start the action from a random step. That’s an obvious feature request.

This is all part of the “Modern User Interface” that they’re rolling out piece by piece now. Much of it has been rather buggy on release, then fixed, so they seem to be paying attention. I suggest this be moved to Feature Requests.