IPhone Questions - iMessage and Call History

Very new iPhone user.  I think I'm getting bad information so I have the following questions
1. Can you set your iPhone so that the iMessage history deletes automatically after a few minutes (as opposed to say 30 days)?
2. Is it possible that only part of an iMessage history on an iPhone would be deleted automatically? For example, if there was a conversation/thread then 10 minutes later there was an addition to the conversation/thread, would it be possible for the first part of the conversation to be deleted but not the second part to be deleted automatically or would it have to be done manually?
3. Does regular call history (no iMessage) delete upon a reboot of the iPhone?
Thanks,
Mark

Hi,
The most frequent automatic deletion timeframe you can set is 30 days. If you have 30 days selected, then once the 30 day threshold is reached, messages threads that exceed that threshold will be deleted.
Call history does not delete on a reboot. If you restore your device to Factory Settings and do not restore it using a backup, call history will be deleted.
Cheers,
GB

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