diff --git a/app/retention-policy/server/cronPruneMessages.js b/app/retention-policy/server/cronPruneMessages.js
index cb5b0fab18650..077dcc0b4365c 100644
--- a/app/retention-policy/server/cronPruneMessages.js
+++ b/app/retention-policy/server/cronPruneMessages.js
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ function getSchedule(precision) {
 const pruneCronName = 'Prune old messages by retention policy';
 
 function deployCron(precision) {
-	const schedule = (parser) => parser.cron(getSchedule(precision), true);
+	const schedule = (parser) => parser.cron(precision, true);
 
 	SyncedCron.remove(pruneCronName);
 	SyncedCron.add({
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ function reloadPolicy() {
 	maxTimes.p = settings.get('RetentionPolicy_MaxAge_Groups');
 	maxTimes.d = settings.get('RetentionPolicy_MaxAge_DMs');
 
-	return deployCron(settings.get('RetentionPolicy_Precision'));
+
+	const precision = (settings.get('RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision') && settings.get('RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Cron')) || getSchedule(settings.get('RetentionPolicy_Precision'));
+
+	return deployCron(precision);
 }
 
 Meteor.startup(function() {
diff --git a/app/retention-policy/server/startup/settings.js b/app/retention-policy/server/startup/settings.js
index 6389cbe6b5518..358576575e225 100644
--- a/app/retention-policy/server/startup/settings.js
+++ b/app/retention-policy/server/startup/settings.js
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import { settings } from '../../../settings';
 
 settings.addGroup('RetentionPolicy', function() {
+
+	const globalQuery = {
+		_id: 'RetentionPolicy_Enabled',
+		value: true,
+	};
+
 	this.add('RetentionPolicy_Enabled', false, {
 		type: 'boolean',
 		public: true,
@@ -28,18 +34,30 @@ settings.addGroup('RetentionPolicy', function() {
 		public: true,
 		i18nLabel: 'RetentionPolicy_Precision',
 		i18nDescription: 'RetentionPolicy_Precision_Description',
-		enableQuery: {
-			_id: 'RetentionPolicy_Enabled',
-			value: true,
-		},
+		enableQuery: [globalQuery, {
+			_id: 'RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision',
+			value: false,
+		}],
 	});
 
-	this.section('Global Policy', function() {
-		const globalQuery = {
-			_id: 'RetentionPolicy_Enabled',
-			value: true,
-		};
+	this.add('RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision', false, {
+		type: 'boolean',
+		public: true,
+		i18nLabel: 'RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision',
+		i18nDescription: 'RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Description',
+		enableQuery: globalQuery,
+	});
 
+	this.add('RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Cron', '*/30 * * * *', {
+		type: 'string',
+		public: true,
+		i18nLabel: 'RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Cron',
+		i18nDescription: 'RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Cron_Description',
+		enableQuery: [globalQuery, { _id: 'RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision', value: true }],
+	});
+
+
+	this.section('Global Policy', function() {
 		this.add('RetentionPolicy_AppliesToChannels', false, {
 			type: 'boolean',
 			public: true,
@@ -80,6 +98,7 @@ settings.addGroup('RetentionPolicy', function() {
 			i18nLabel: 'RetentionPolicy_AppliesToDMs',
 			enableQuery: globalQuery,
 		});
+
 		this.add('RetentionPolicy_MaxAge_DMs', 30, {
 			type: 'int',
 			public: true,
@@ -97,6 +116,7 @@ settings.addGroup('RetentionPolicy', function() {
 			i18nLabel: 'RetentionPolicy_DoNotPrunePinned',
 			enableQuery: globalQuery,
 		});
+
 		this.add('RetentionPolicy_FilesOnly', false, {
 			type: 'boolean',
 			public: true,
diff --git a/packages/rocketchat-i18n/i18n/en.i18n.json b/packages/rocketchat-i18n/i18n/en.i18n.json
index d6ac58c8af006..8202e879828c9 100644
--- a/packages/rocketchat-i18n/i18n/en.i18n.json
+++ b/packages/rocketchat-i18n/i18n/en.i18n.json
@@ -2689,7 +2689,6 @@
   "Office_Hours": "Office Hours",
   "Office_hours_enabled": "Office Hours Enabled",
   "Office_hours_updated": "Office hours updated",
-  "RetentionPolicy_ExcludePinned": "Exclude pinned messages",
   "Offline": "Offline",
   "Offline_DM_Email": "Direct Message Email Subject",
   "Offline_Email_Subject_Description": "You may use the following placeholders:<br/><ul><li>[Site_Name], [Site_URL], [User] & [Room] for the Application Name, URL, Username & Roomname respectively.<li/></ul>",
@@ -3013,8 +3012,12 @@
   "Retail": "Retail",
   "Retention_setting_changed_successfully": "Retention policy setting changed successfully",
   "RetentionPolicy": "Retention Policy",
+  "RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision": "Use Advanced Retention Policy configuration",
+  "RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Cron": "Use Advanced Retention Policy Cron",
+  "RetentionPolicy_Advanced_Precision_Cron_Description": "How often the prune timer should run defined by cron job expression. Setting this to a more precise value makes channels with fast retention timers work better, but might cost extra processing power on large communities.",
   "RetentionPolicy_DoNotPruneDiscussion": "Do not prune discussion messages",
   "RetentionPolicy_DoNotPruneThreads": "Do not prune Threads",
+  "RetentionPolicy_ExcludePinned": "Exclude pinned messages",
   "RetentionPolicy_RoomWarning": "Messages older than __time__ are automatically pruned here",
   "RetentionPolicy_RoomWarning_Unpinned": "Unpinned messages older than __time__ are automatically pruned here",
   "RetentionPolicy_RoomWarning_FilesOnly": "Files older than __time__ are automatically pruned here (messages stay intact)",