Если Вы не видите галочки, лучше обновить страницу и снова проверить поле.

Capital Вы is a polite/formal way to write you in Russian, especially in instructions, messages to users, business communication, or customer-facing text.

Lowercase вы is also possible in many modern texts, but capital Вы can sound more respectful or direct to one person in a formal setting.

Если means if. It introduces a condition:

Если Вы не видите галочки = If you do not see the checkmark

This is a very common structure in Russian, just like in English.

Видите comes from видеть = to see in the sense of to be able to see / to have in view.

Here the sentence means if you do not see it on the page/screen right now, so imperfective видеть is natural.

Увидеть usually means to catch sight of / notice / see at a particular moment.
So:

• не видите = you do not see
• не увидите = you will not see / you won’t manage to see

In this sentence, the instruction is about the current situation on the screen, so не видите fits better.

Галочки here is genitive singular of галочка.

After negation, Russian often uses the genitive for the object, especially in set phrases like:

• не вижу галочки = I do not see a checkmark

So although галочку would be the accusative singular, after не видеть Russian very often prefers the genitive:

• вижу галочку = I see the checkmark
• не вижу галочки = I do not see the checkmark

This is a very common pattern with verbs of perception and negation.

Галочка literally means a checkmark, tick, or sometimes a checkbox mark, depending on context.

In interface language, it can refer to:

• the little tick/check itself
• the checked state of a checkbox

So in a website or form context, галочка is exactly the kind of word you would expect to see.

Лучше + infinitive means it is better to...

So:

лучше обновить страницу = it is better to refresh the page

This structure is very common in Russian for giving advice or a recommendation. It sounds a bit softer than a direct command.

Compare:

• Обновите страницу = Refresh the page.
• Нужно обновить страницу = It is necessary to refresh the page.
• Лучше обновить страницу = It is better to refresh the page.

Here the tone is helpful and advisory.

Обновить is the perfective verb, meaning to refresh / update once, successfully.

In this sentence, the idea is a single completed action:

refresh the page

That is why the perfective infinitive is natural.

• обновить = refresh once
• обновлять = refresh repeatedly / be refreshing / refresh in general

Instructions for a one-time action usually use the perfective infinitive.

Страницу is the accusative singular of страница because it is the direct object of обновить:

• обновить что? → страницу

So:

• nominative: страница
• accusative: страницу

This is a regular feminine noun pattern.

For the same reason as обновить: проверить is perfective and refers to a single completed action.

The sentence is giving a sequence of actions:

1. refresh the page
2. check the field again

So Russian uses perfective infinitives:

• обновить
• проверить

If you said проверять, it would sound more like to be checking / to check repeatedly / to check in general, which is not the intended meaning here.

In everyday Russian, поле can mean field, and in technical or website language it very often means a form field or input field.

So in this sentence it most likely means the field on the page that should show or contain the checkmark.

Because поле is the direct object of проверить:

• проверить что? → поле

The idea is check the field.

If Russian wanted to say check in the field, then a preposition would be needed, but that is not the structure here.

Russian normally separates the if-clause from the main clause with a comma.

So:

• Если Вы не видите галочки, ...

This is directly parallel to English:

• If you do not see the checkmark, ...

The comma marks the boundary between the condition and the result/advice.

Yes. Russian often gives instructions indirectly with structures like лучше + infinitive.

So even though it is not the direct imperative обновите страницу, it still functions as practical guidance to the user:

• лучше обновить страницу и снова проверить поле
  = it’s better to refresh the page and check the field again

This is common in support messages, UI text, and troubleshooting instructions because it sounds polite and less abrupt.

The word order is natural and clear, but Russian word order is fairly flexible.

This version is straightforward:

Если Вы не видите галочки, лучше обновить страницу и снова проверить поле.

It presents:

1. the condition
2. the recommendation

You could rearrange parts slightly for emphasis, but this word order is the most neutral and typical for an instruction like this.

Because лучше here introduces a recommendation, and Russian commonly follows it with infinitives:

• лучше обновить
• и снова проверить

This works like English it is better to refresh... and check...

Russian often leaves out an explicit it is or to equivalent and simply uses the infinitive after words like лучше, можно, нужно, надо.

The tone is polite, neutral, and instructional. It sounds like something you might see in:

• a website message
• technical support text
• a help page
• an app interface

It avoids sounding too harsh or bossy by using:

• polite Вы
• advisory лучше
• neutral infinitives instead of direct commands